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“EXCELLENCE is NOT a Single Act, It’s a HABIT!” | Dan Pena


Adolf Hitler might be the highest
performance guy that ever was born on
the planet
Bill Gates does not chill he does not go
to the Super Bowl
why do you excellence is not a single
act it’s a habit find somebody it is
where you want to be 20 or 30 years from
now and go to him or her now need
motivation watch the top 10 with the
he’s dan pena and here’s my take on his
top ten rules of success volume four
okay let’s kick it off with rule number
one surround yourself with greatness
the first method for estimating the
intelligence of a ruler’s to look at the
man who surrounds himself with now if I
were going to judge you or you or you by
the guys you hang with the guys you’ve
killed with I think you’re a retard you
hanging to Bill Gates does not chill he
does not go to the Super Bowl Steve Jobs
you hang out with monkeys a lot of
resemblance here you know you become a
circus show me your friends and I’ll
show your future most of you would be
embarrassed to tell me who your five
closest buddies are rule number two
minimize your regrets I didn’t know I
had this in common with the founder of
Amazon but he’s in the regret
minimization business he is modeled his
life styled what will I regret when I’m
80 now that he’s 50 something he says
now it’s going to be 90 same as me but
I’ve had 80 for a long long time and
there’s still some things if I have
three regrets one I’m a combat trained
army officer they never saw combat to
that the day before my mother died at
here at the castle I’m screaming at her
god damn it don’t be a bitch you’re not
sick you’re not gonna die next morning
she’s dead can’t go back on that Canyon
and the third is I didn’t set my goals
high know nothing about missing my son
or my daughter’s sweet 16 or missing a
soccer or a baseball game but no no no
that’s that you have been led to believe
wrongfully are important I am a
world-class eulogy gripper and every
single person I buried I normally go to
see him but normally they asked me for
it they die I go and I said well what do
you know what do you want me to say and
they always say well I’m sorry for it I
didn’t take this risk I didn’t do this I
didn’t do that not that I miss my son’s
wedding not that I miss my third
that’s the risk they didn’t take rule
number three be a high performer Adolph
Hitler might be the highest performance
guy that ever was born on the planet he
got beat
performance doesn’t mean you’re a good
guy he got more done with less than any
human being ever he got more done with
less a little chicken private Austrian
from the second world war to be
so I mean when I say it I mean it’s a
compliment not all the bad things he did
but I mean from from some nothing to
something he’s a high-performance guy
rule number four
press the envelope I am mostly titanium
and steel parts this is me
artificial shoulders artificial
collarbone artificial knees full knees
artificial hip I’ve been busted up over
the years I do a lot of extraordinary
things not the least of which getting
run over by a buffalo 25 years ago but
I’m always pressing the envelope
physically and mentally and financially
ie we started the boxing ring which as I
told some of you in the beginning
95% of everybody thought it was a great
idea 5% said that I was inhumane like
the gladiators and the Lions and all
kind of bullsh and I’ve continued to
press myself now this is a 2014 we’re in
New Zealand and I see a poster about
bungee jumping and I said I was telling
I got to do that in status just turn
around and it’s right here this is where
the bungee doesn’t so I got to do that
so the next morning I said I’m in line
there’s about 50 60 Millennials kind of
like you guys and they’re all saying the
winds were gusting 40 to 60 miles an
hour and you can’t jump so all the
millenniums ago when that wind dies down
I’m gonna jump that I’m gonna jump
they’re all dancing around so I waited
about 10 minutes I take a hundred-dollar
bill I walk up to the head of the line I
said don’t you think that the winds died
down now he said I believe it is Hesser
I jump okay I come back these guys are
so safe without well your duty jump ah I
didn’t know the wind died down but when
it dies down the next I’m gonna jump
down I believe with all my heart
some of those guys are still in line
wait also if you want to have confidence
like Dan Pina checking my 250 for
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no and no initially upfront you have to
try you have to swing at the plate a kid
like you you had to keep track of seven
days a week 24 hours a day what you do
rule number five find mentors you only
have one time to make a first impression
the first impression is how you look now
I already know how I look and you know
how I look as well second impression is
when you open your mouth most of you
with the greatest respect can’t speak
properly you stutter your mumble you
sweat and I can go on and on
I’ve learned it like the hot lights
because I want to convey my message so
you go where there are people that you
want to be like you find somebody that
is in my whole basis is mentorship find
somebody is where you want to be 20 or
30 years from now and go to him or her
now and I had the presence of mind to be
attracted to some very very famous very
well wealthy people in my 50 year career
and I went after them to not not for
money not for anything like that but I
just wanted him to talk to me and to
share their wisdom rule number six build
good habits excellence is not a single
act it’s a habit and right now most of
you have piss-poor habits and most of
the kids on YouTube have piss-poor
habits because your habits have been
based on what you’ve seen first of all
how your parents acted second of all how
you’re the people that you’ve been
exposed to hanging with show me your
friends and I’ll show you a future and
the if you in your neighborhood you know
most of the kids are getting arrested
going to jail going to prison there’s a
high probability that you’re gonna get
arrested and you’re gonna go to jail and
you go to prison rule number seven take
action what are you gonna tell your
children what are you going to tell your
grandchildren 20 years from now daddy
grandpa what were you doing doing the
greatest transformation of wealth in the
history of the
planet other than having your thought
yes
what are you gonna tell him oh I was
thinking about it huh
I was spread it I’m proud to say I
haven’t done a spreadsheet in 10-15
go listen to another read blog listened
to a podcast rule number eight wanted
bad enough as a hip-hop motivational guy
a black guy yeah and he says if if you
don’t want to be successful as much as
you want lungs breath in your lungs none
of you qualify in this room
hardly anybody to come to the seminar
quantifies when I was doing this and
when I invented qlae and didn’t know was
kill away at the time only knew it was
too late when I look back and I put it
together the model if you will or the
formula I wanted it more than air I
sacrifice my God my country my family my
children my parents my friends and guess
what it happened rule number nine be an
eagle eagles fly alone I have no friends
friends are problems friends are
challenges if you can’t if you aren’t
into yourself and that means something
else now then what I mean if you’re not
into yourself enough that you can’t
spend the weekend by yourself and your
something’s wrong with you
Lisa V self-esteem being a
high-performance person and
accomplishing the high performance acts
something’s wrong with you and rule
number ten the last one before a very
special bonus clip is dream big a guy I
was a barrio bad boy in the barrio of
East Los Angeles to the country that’s a
big lead that’s a big big it doesn’t I
can’t imagine
well came close last year I was honoured
by the Queen of England I am now as they
call a member of st. John a member of
st. John which is just but look thank
you thank you
and it’s a derivative of the Templar the
people that supposedly took Christ’s
body died a time and you know the
Knights of the Templar that’s what it’s
a derivative of but for a kid in me East
LA who almost killed his teacher
now was I thinking about killing the
teacher no I was up on the Youth Club
the second floor with a query and I
looked down at the teacher and the
teacher had pissed me off and back in
those days I wasn’t the kind of guy who
put on a piss off so I dropped the
aquarium away 45 pounds by the grace of
God Allah Buddha he moved and it didn’t
hit him in the head and hit him in the
shoulder and crushed his shoulder right
clavicle if that had killed him back in
the mid-50s I wouldn’t be sitting here
oh the Queen wouldn’t give me anything
not even a postage stamp and I wouldn’t
be living in a castle cuz I would have
spent the majority of my adult life in
prison now I’ve got a special bonus
stuff from Dan and how you don’t want to
be the smartest person in the room that
I think you’re gonna enjoy but before
that it’s time for the three point
lighting questions let’s go from just
watching under the video to taking
action here we go question number one
what is your big dream number two how
will you surround yourself with
greatness this week and number three
what’s one good habit you want to build
starting today Jack Welsh and a number
of the guys say the same thing you want
to be not the smartest guy in the room I
have a lot of difficulty with that
because I’m normally am the smartest guy
in the room no matter how smart
everybody is but you want to surround
yourself with talent and the reason why
most the kids don’t so I’m themselves
with real super talent is because
they’re insecure that these people these
are men and or women will extricate you
and in sometimes they do extricate you
but as long as you’ve set it up properly
you’re going to be extricated with a
if you want more dan Payne yeah check it
the last top 10 I made on him the link
is right there next to me I think you’ll
enjoy it continue to believe and I’ll
see you there
it’s never going to get any better than
this kids this is the eyes they said on
YouTube the eye of the perfect storm so I’m saying no matter what your age is
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