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SHOW UP – Farrah Gray (@RealFarrahGray) – #Entspresso


good morning believe nation today’s
message is show up over to you farah
grey most people say you have to be at
the right place at the right time i
always say no you have to be everywhere
all the time because your visibility is
just as important as your ability so I
think you have to show up and I find a
lot of times even personally people are
just not showing up anymore you can’t
win if you don’t play so we have for
example right now I find that people
aren’t showing up for their
opportunities you know people believe
that opportunity knocks you know once or
twice or annually i would say
opportunity never knocks it’s something
you have to go after with the Vengeance
living in Las Vegas I even give credit
to people who you know hit the jackpot
there because at least they showed up
and put that dollar into the machine for
a chance so I think you have to give
yourself a chance and show up in your
relationship show up on your on your job
show up in life I don’t think most
people show up just in general I think
people want something but as soon as you
ask them to do just a little bit a tiny
bit of work they fall apart they
disappear they don’t show up for the
simple things forget about the big
things that that they say that they want
to accomplish and that’s maybe less so
for entrepreneurs but there’s still a
lot of you guys out there who talk a big
game but never follow through and the
things that you say you’re going to do
as an example is recent co hosting an
event with our mayor here in in Toronto
and city John Tory where we’re talking
about mentorship and they dated but a
bunch of the people in the audience came
to me and said hey can we meet for
coffee will you be my mentor can we have
half an hour and talk about my business
and this is always a scary thing because
I love giving back but the worst thing
for any mentor-mentee relationship is
when the person doesn’t follow through
like the worst thing for mentor is
having a mentee who sucks who does not
follow through who you’ve just wasted
your time on right time is my most
valuable asset and if you are wasting my
time I feel terrible about myself about
that decision right and so I don’t want
to do it again and so what I do is make
people jump through a couple hoops and
the first one was
I’d be happy to connect with you send me
an email you can look me up send me an
email and let’s set up a ton of the
people who came up to me and asked to do
some kind of mentorship coffee or
whatever only half of them then went
home and actually looking me up and sent
an email half like how long’s that take
five minutes to type in my name find my
website find my contact and send me an
email half of the people didn’t follow
through so what I’m supposed to follow
up with you when you want something from
me you’re not willing to even do one
step that takes five minutes it’s crazy
from there the people who did email me I
suggested hey why don’t we do it as a
YouTube hang up because i’d love to
answer your questions live hopefully we
can help some other entrepreneurs we’re
going through the same issues as you and
whatever your business is we can promote
it to my audience understand that a lot
of the times you do this on purpose a
lot of the times the opportunity is
different than what you first think it’s
going to be you’re trying to bang on the
door but maybe the way through is the
window right if you just keep trying to
bang on the door you’re not going to get
through when you have an opportunity
often it’s not the one you expect so I
wanted the purposely ship to hang out
instead of a coffee meeting so then we
lost a whole bunch of people who just
never responded to the email I right
back to you and say hey let’s do
something and you don’t even respond the
people who did respond then I said okay
great let’s set up a time here’s the
email from my assistant email her and
let’s set up a time to be able to do it
I didn’t copy her on that I wanted them
to take the extra step to email her
introduce themselves and NASA set up a
time one person did it out of all the
people came up and said I desperately
want you to mentor me can we do
something one person followed through to
the end I set up the hoops on purpose
because again I don’t want to waste my
time and I know this is going to happen
I know that most people will never show
up I just assumed that it’s not going to
happen so I need to design these hoops
that take what 20 minutes of work
combined to do maybe probably 10 or 15
minutes total that people are unwilling
to do and I’m supposed to spend my time
with you and help you out when you won’t
even invest 15 minutes in the
relationship to move it forward right I
just expect people not to
up and that’s a problem and so when you
do show up you immediately separate
yourself from those people because
ninety nine percent of the world isn’t
showing up so be that person when you
say you’re going to do something do it
when somebody gives you an opportunity
even though it may not be the one that
you had in your mind but it moves you
forward and moves you closer to your
goal do it and the way to achieve in
advance is to over-deliver right
whatever task you’re given whatever
immediate opportunity you’re given no
matter how small it is over deliver give
them way more than they thought that
we’re gonna get show your value show
your work and that small opportunity
become something bigger become something
bigger become something bigger when I
meet with people want to be mentored and
I give them feedback say hey here’s what
I think you should do go home and do it
like try it the same people come to a
month later and say hey I’m stuck on the
same problems like okay well I give you
advice what did you do oh I haven’t done
that yet go do the work right what do
you expect me to do when you’re not
invest in a timing yourself like people
expecting somebody to save them to do
the work for them to give them all the
answers in an execute you need to invest
in yourself you need to show up and do
the work and again when you do that
you’re separating yourself from most of
the world because nobody else is showing
up and the ones that do just do the bare
minimum where if you go above and beyond
deliver an amazing experience something
awesome something excellent something
different something unique that’s how I
become successful so the question day
today is when was the last time you
really showed up tell me the story leave
in the comments below I’m going to join
the discussion thank you so much for
watching have an amazing day continue to
believe and i’ll see you again tomorrow
morning for another shot events peso
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