good evening how you doing
and even got to count you for me that’s
great well listen it’s great to be here
at Ted I mean a Tampa is an amazing
place I mean the people the food and and
the weather I mean I almost don’t even
want to go the guy – look this red dot
so I make sure I stay within my
parameters you know red dots is not too
good and you know you I watched a lot of
die hard so bread dot some folks ain’t
good okay
but hey argue to Arthur of your future
you know our you know Arthur of your
your life it’s kind of easy for me and
you guys are know I’m kind of a jokester
but it’s easy for me because my name is
Arthur okay so but I have six points
that I’m gonna talk to you about about
being the author of your life your
success and your future until you know
you guys you know hopefully you can’t be
renamed or anything but it’s gonna get
you squared away real easy but imagine
this I was in Charlotte North Carolina
running a multi-million dollar company
you know out of my dorm room 26 years
old okay but matching this is you okay
26 years old you know a millionaire by
the time you’re 26 you got you know
multi-million dollar company companies
are doing where they need to be doing
I call my my president of our company up
we’re gonna talk about our quarterly
earnings what we’re gonna do how we’re
going to take things to the next level
you know what can we do to be the best
and and take over the world and be the
next Charles Schwab okay we walk around
the the boardwalk very similar to out
here in and in Tampa here where they got
the boardwalk the people are there the
ocean and the waves and things like that
are moving and it wasn’t hosting it was
you know just a lake there but I like
the Tampa backdrop a little bit better
so you know it’s a very dramatic thing
and I’m very proud of you know what he
said in
he’s doing he’s excited because he’s
like wow man can you believe where we
took this company from because I
remember from the dorm room and now
you’re at a point where this company is
just really at the at the pinnacle and
at the point of really going to another
level
he asked me a question you know what’s
the next step and I said sell everything
sell everything at the height and and he
was like well the next when he responded
back to me say well Arthur how soon and
went and not you know and I told him I
said immediately and we did that okay so
why would I do that it’s higher than my
career the height of everything why
would somebody do something like this
it’s crazy you mean you know yeah you
know you got success you got you know
some fame I was doing a couple speaking
engagement just like this great event
here why would somebody do something
that crazy then I thought about
something that my mother told me she
says Arthur why would you ever want to
be a public success and a private
failure I never wanted to be you know
just the point where I was doing things
in the public but and and deep down I
wasn’t probably doing the things that I
wanted to do was it not about the money
was it about the countless hours that I
was working was it that I wasn’t doing
my passion you know at that particular
time so let me go and jump into those
those those six steps that we we talked
about the first thing you have to do is
look at what do you what is the whole
purpose and meaning of your life you
know is it something just that defines
you by being in business is it something
that that defines you about oh do I have
the the best-looking
boyfriend/girlfriend like what is it
that that really like like drives you to
the success I call this thing called
life wealth or something that is that is
a total completion a thing where you are
have the the personal satisfaction
that’s in your life your wealth and and
in your career it’s not just one thing
that it that it that it revolves around
okay
so for me I had a lot of other things
that were already successful but that
was that just it didn’t it wasn’t
complete success so when I looked at and
say okay well if in my life if a person
is you know just say they’re their
health nut and they do all the things
that they do but they go home and they
broke and they can’t afford the stuff to
take one end up doing that’s not success
you don’t want to be so successful you
can’t spend the time with your family
and in loved ones so I think you guys
kind of get the point of what I mean by
by life wealth so it’s the personal
satisfaction of your life your wealth
and also your career so the first part
of that be point one I know you guys
that’s not a note books and things like
that so write that down the first one is
vision you gotta have a victorious
vision you gotta have passion in your
life like how do you know like what a
real vision is you know it’s something
that when you when you wake up in the
morning it just you just can’t wait to
get up so you can get on it when you go
to bed at night and you still can’t go
to bed because you’re still just
thinking about it
you know that’s that passion that’s
things that you got to have that’s what
creates that life well it creates that
fulfillment to make you feel good inside
it means it’s that driving force
whenever a vision like that you also
have to get knowledge based on what that
is you know after I sold the company
made millions of dollars they did great
things I had the bright idea I wanted to
be a film producer yeah sounds glorious
but I didn’t know anything about right
in the film okay or doing anything to it
you know it’s crazy but we then we went
on to to to deal with some some
individuals met a couple great people
that were clients of mine one was the
Omar Tyrese a New York Times bestselling
author then I did a deal with them and
Lionsgate had a multi pitcher deal then
we went on to meet the trader of final
destination a 650 million dollar hit
maker you know in the horror thriller
space and you know all in all is because
I was passed and had the ability to to
meet some of these these individuals
and that energy just kind of just
created and made one big one big ball of
things but before I did that I had to
use what I had and there was a knowledge
base a I knew I was a great you know
money maker when it when it comes to
raising capital I knew I was I did good
deal maker so I was able to utilize
those things all in one thing with that
vision my next point is a power plan
because I didn’t know how I was gonna do
any of the stuff that I’m doing now but
a power plan is a written roadmap to
your success okay are you written
roadmap to your success your success
because it can’t be something aware that
you think that okay I got this vision I
mean a lot of us have a vision a lot of
people try to plan but it’s something
that is written and you can’t tuck it
away in your drawer okay you can’t just
tuck it in your drawer and just look at
it say okay it’s just gonna be there it
has to be something that’s gonna be
visual that you look at on a day-to-day
basis okay
you know for me I remember when I wanted
to I said I’m gonna be a millionaire
about this age da da da da so I had to
rise to write all these little sticky
notes on my my mirror in my room and my
dorm room you know save $100 a day do
this do that do that and it was so
visual so it’s a written roadmap to your
success now you want to look at things
from a short term a midterm and a long
term goal plan it shouldn’t be anything
that’s so far in a way to where you
can’t ever achieve is like oh when I get
to be 98 I’m gonna retire and I’m gonna
enjoy my life finally after I work hard
to do this know when you are go plant
illnesses again to see your life your
wealth okay it’s your career again this
your are thering your your whole success
of what you’re trying to do so you got a
look at it so short turn what are the
things I’m gonna do right now okay this
is over the next minute
over the next 30 days the next 90 days
how does this look this is my outcome
okay what am I going to do over the the
neck
you know five years what does it look
like 30 years from now how do what kind
of legacy am I going to leave for future
generations
it’s critical critical but often times
people get stuck into this thing I’m
going to do this I’m going to do that
I’m gonna I should have I wish I
could’ve did that I could’ve did this we
don’t want to get stuck there and that
goes into my next point the execution
point this is that driving force this is
you’ve been able to achieve the
achievable not the unachievable because
God has given us so many different
abilities that’s out there that we can
achieve but we got to utilize and we got
to move we have to move why don’t we
move well it’s kind of easy a lot of
folks they don’t want to move because of
obstacles and we all get obstacles it’s
kind of hard sometimes you know when you
know things don’t go quite the way we
did it we got this great vision you know
we were waking up in the morning we
going to bed late at night and all these
other things keeping us up we we’ve been
researching it we’re doing good we got a
a plan of attack then the next thing an
obstacle happens so imagine this I’m
sure we all got GPS right now to use GPS
what a imagine if you were driving down
a road and every time you hit a rock or
a bump your GPS says rerouting rerouting
you would never get to your goal it’s
impossible it’s impossible he’s going to
go around these circles we don’t want to
go around in circles we want to move we
want to have life wealth we want to have
that satisfaction in our life our wealth
our career and we want to do it in all
of those factors I’m going to get to a
point where we’re talking about the
marketing piece and you being a brand my
four point it’s called product you you
are a brand you are
the CEO you are the author of your life
your career and your wealth businesses
have this they have a tool that they
call SWOT analysis probably got a lot of
business student is here
it’s called strengths weaknesses
opportunities and threats now in
strengths you know we all know what
those are and we good at it we kind of
brag about it we’re good at this we’re
good at that but it’s important because
as you go out to your strengths you you
can move in there in the right direction
and at least have a good start when
you’re looking at any of your goals that
you’re dealing with my strengths
personally was okay I’m a deal maker I
raise money I build brands when I went
into the the movie studios again we
didn’t even have a script but yet we got
a 14 picture deal worth millions of
dollars just because of the things that
I was good at now this goes to my next
point that weaknesses I didn’t know how
to write a script we didn’t really had a
budget yet to do everything that we
needed to do so we had a lot of things
that we didn’t have but that’s okay at
least you got to admit and know what
your weaknesses are how are you how are
you gonna accomplish your goals if you
don’t know what your weaknesses are and
admit to them and be true to yourself
and know that look this is what I need
to do to do those things so we’ve got
great script writers we got great
distribution companies all the things
that I was not good at I made sure that
I got other folks that was around me
that was really freaking good at it
right you got to so it works then you
got opportunities out there you want to
look at the opportunities that you have
in your life you don’t want to go into
an industry that’s like like dying or
not working I mean you know think about
I wrote about in my book only crazy and
fearless when big where you know Henry
Ford was making a big transition at the
time you know people hang
and I didn’t force buggy and carriages
anymore so they’re probably a good thing
to be you know making carriages at the
time just ain’t that smart you probably
want to go through something more
mechanical then you have threats you
have to look at threats again we’re not
just talking about business here we’re
talking about your career as well as
your your personal life one of the
threats for me this hit really home
my father has diabetes and he says son
you know look you have to be aware and
watch your sugar you can’t do this you
can’t do that you know how fathers are
but he’s right you got to understand
that what’s the use of having wealth
having all these great things but I’m
blind or I’m lost a limb or not doing
the things that I want to again this is
life well we’re talking about having
total fulfillment total fulfillment so
don’t just have a job you’re working
somehow I’m just gonna make this cash
got to get this guy to get on the ground
No are you impacting other people do you
feel good at night okay are you are you
when you wake up in the morning feel
like this is what God meant me meant for
me to do so these are the things that
we’re talking about so so I have a
complete life now the next part of this
is networking I kind of like this one of
my best friend’s father told me this is
that if you got nine broke friends
you’re bound to be the tenth one okay so
hang around only winners all my boys are
winners Oh My gods are winners that’s
what we do you know but I’ll take it to
anything and any part of my life for
example you know if I’m gonna be a fast
sprinter or doing something one of the
best sprinters I’m not gonna be hanging
around walkers no I want folks that’s
gonna move that’s gonna do things that’s
gonna challenge me to be faster that’s
gonna be quicker that’s gonna be able to
do things so and it’s not about just
taking you know when you network with
people it’s about also in
you know you’re giving you know what can
you offer to this relationship whether
it be business you should also be able
to quickly identify whatever your goal
is to someone else within 20 seconds you
should be clear be very concise and know
where you’re going critical dealing with
the unknown wow that’s an entrepreneur
it is it’s a very scary place out here
man where you gonna get that next dollar
sometimes you feel like you about to do
a billion dollars million dollars the
next thing you know you may have lost 3
million I’ve been there before I’ve been
there before so how do you deal with
that fear factor of that uncertainty of
thinking that people are not going to
accept you your goals your dreams and
and and all these things or do you even
feel like you can actually do it can you
move forward can you go from here to
there and then over there then sometimes
you got to go back to here and how
people gonna feel about that I’m gonna
tell you number one you gotta have a
victorious vision you go back to your
points you gotta have that power plan
okay you got to be able to execute
overcome those obstacles
you gotta believe in yourself as a brand
know who you are as a person and be
honest with yourself that I’m willing to
do what it takes to get where I want to
go am I willing to be around the right
people at that time the last thing can I
overcome obstacles and fit and and not
be scared so I want to leave that with
you
I want you to you know be a not just a
public success and a private failure and
remember that only to crazy and fearless
when big thank you you
and even got to count you for me that’s
great well listen it’s great to be here
at Ted I mean a Tampa is an amazing
place I mean the people the food and and
the weather I mean I almost don’t even
want to go the guy – look this red dot
so I make sure I stay within my
parameters you know red dots is not too
good and you know you I watched a lot of
die hard so bread dot some folks ain’t
good okay
but hey argue to Arthur of your future
you know our you know Arthur of your
your life it’s kind of easy for me and
you guys are know I’m kind of a jokester
but it’s easy for me because my name is
Arthur okay so but I have six points
that I’m gonna talk to you about about
being the author of your life your
success and your future until you know
you guys you know hopefully you can’t be
renamed or anything but it’s gonna get
you squared away real easy but imagine
this I was in Charlotte North Carolina
running a multi-million dollar company
you know out of my dorm room 26 years
old okay but matching this is you okay
26 years old you know a millionaire by
the time you’re 26 you got you know
multi-million dollar company companies
are doing where they need to be doing
I call my my president of our company up
we’re gonna talk about our quarterly
earnings what we’re gonna do how we’re
going to take things to the next level
you know what can we do to be the best
and and take over the world and be the
next Charles Schwab okay we walk around
the the boardwalk very similar to out
here in and in Tampa here where they got
the boardwalk the people are there the
ocean and the waves and things like that
are moving and it wasn’t hosting it was
you know just a lake there but I like
the Tampa backdrop a little bit better
so you know it’s a very dramatic thing
and I’m very proud of you know what he
said in
he’s doing he’s excited because he’s
like wow man can you believe where we
took this company from because I
remember from the dorm room and now
you’re at a point where this company is
just really at the at the pinnacle and
at the point of really going to another
level
he asked me a question you know what’s
the next step and I said sell everything
sell everything at the height and and he
was like well the next when he responded
back to me say well Arthur how soon and
went and not you know and I told him I
said immediately and we did that okay so
why would I do that it’s higher than my
career the height of everything why
would somebody do something like this
it’s crazy you mean you know yeah you
know you got success you got you know
some fame I was doing a couple speaking
engagement just like this great event
here why would somebody do something
that crazy then I thought about
something that my mother told me she
says Arthur why would you ever want to
be a public success and a private
failure I never wanted to be you know
just the point where I was doing things
in the public but and and deep down I
wasn’t probably doing the things that I
wanted to do was it not about the money
was it about the countless hours that I
was working was it that I wasn’t doing
my passion you know at that particular
time so let me go and jump into those
those those six steps that we we talked
about the first thing you have to do is
look at what do you what is the whole
purpose and meaning of your life you
know is it something just that defines
you by being in business is it something
that that defines you about oh do I have
the the best-looking
boyfriend/girlfriend like what is it
that that really like like drives you to
the success I call this thing called
life wealth or something that is that is
a total completion a thing where you are
have the the personal satisfaction
that’s in your life your wealth and and
in your career it’s not just one thing
that it that it that it revolves around
okay
so for me I had a lot of other things
that were already successful but that
was that just it didn’t it wasn’t
complete success so when I looked at and
say okay well if in my life if a person
is you know just say they’re their
health nut and they do all the things
that they do but they go home and they
broke and they can’t afford the stuff to
take one end up doing that’s not success
you don’t want to be so successful you
can’t spend the time with your family
and in loved ones so I think you guys
kind of get the point of what I mean by
by life wealth so it’s the personal
satisfaction of your life your wealth
and also your career so the first part
of that be point one I know you guys
that’s not a note books and things like
that so write that down the first one is
vision you gotta have a victorious
vision you gotta have passion in your
life like how do you know like what a
real vision is you know it’s something
that when you when you wake up in the
morning it just you just can’t wait to
get up so you can get on it when you go
to bed at night and you still can’t go
to bed because you’re still just
thinking about it
you know that’s that passion that’s
things that you got to have that’s what
creates that life well it creates that
fulfillment to make you feel good inside
it means it’s that driving force
whenever a vision like that you also
have to get knowledge based on what that
is you know after I sold the company
made millions of dollars they did great
things I had the bright idea I wanted to
be a film producer yeah sounds glorious
but I didn’t know anything about right
in the film okay or doing anything to it
you know it’s crazy but we then we went
on to to to deal with some some
individuals met a couple great people
that were clients of mine one was the
Omar Tyrese a New York Times bestselling
author then I did a deal with them and
Lionsgate had a multi pitcher deal then
we went on to meet the trader of final
destination a 650 million dollar hit
maker you know in the horror thriller
space and you know all in all is because
I was passed and had the ability to to
meet some of these these individuals
and that energy just kind of just
created and made one big one big ball of
things but before I did that I had to
use what I had and there was a knowledge
base a I knew I was a great you know
money maker when it when it comes to
raising capital I knew I was I did good
deal maker so I was able to utilize
those things all in one thing with that
vision my next point is a power plan
because I didn’t know how I was gonna do
any of the stuff that I’m doing now but
a power plan is a written roadmap to
your success okay are you written
roadmap to your success your success
because it can’t be something aware that
you think that okay I got this vision I
mean a lot of us have a vision a lot of
people try to plan but it’s something
that is written and you can’t tuck it
away in your drawer okay you can’t just
tuck it in your drawer and just look at
it say okay it’s just gonna be there it
has to be something that’s gonna be
visual that you look at on a day-to-day
basis okay
you know for me I remember when I wanted
to I said I’m gonna be a millionaire
about this age da da da da so I had to
rise to write all these little sticky
notes on my my mirror in my room and my
dorm room you know save $100 a day do
this do that do that and it was so
visual so it’s a written roadmap to your
success now you want to look at things
from a short term a midterm and a long
term goal plan it shouldn’t be anything
that’s so far in a way to where you
can’t ever achieve is like oh when I get
to be 98 I’m gonna retire and I’m gonna
enjoy my life finally after I work hard
to do this know when you are go plant
illnesses again to see your life your
wealth okay it’s your career again this
your are thering your your whole success
of what you’re trying to do so you got a
look at it so short turn what are the
things I’m gonna do right now okay this
is over the next minute
over the next 30 days the next 90 days
how does this look this is my outcome
okay what am I going to do over the the
neck
you know five years what does it look
like 30 years from now how do what kind
of legacy am I going to leave for future
generations
it’s critical critical but often times
people get stuck into this thing I’m
going to do this I’m going to do that
I’m gonna I should have I wish I
could’ve did that I could’ve did this we
don’t want to get stuck there and that
goes into my next point the execution
point this is that driving force this is
you’ve been able to achieve the
achievable not the unachievable because
God has given us so many different
abilities that’s out there that we can
achieve but we got to utilize and we got
to move we have to move why don’t we
move well it’s kind of easy a lot of
folks they don’t want to move because of
obstacles and we all get obstacles it’s
kind of hard sometimes you know when you
know things don’t go quite the way we
did it we got this great vision you know
we were waking up in the morning we
going to bed late at night and all these
other things keeping us up we we’ve been
researching it we’re doing good we got a
a plan of attack then the next thing an
obstacle happens so imagine this I’m
sure we all got GPS right now to use GPS
what a imagine if you were driving down
a road and every time you hit a rock or
a bump your GPS says rerouting rerouting
you would never get to your goal it’s
impossible it’s impossible he’s going to
go around these circles we don’t want to
go around in circles we want to move we
want to have life wealth we want to have
that satisfaction in our life our wealth
our career and we want to do it in all
of those factors I’m going to get to a
point where we’re talking about the
marketing piece and you being a brand my
four point it’s called product you you
are a brand you are
the CEO you are the author of your life
your career and your wealth businesses
have this they have a tool that they
call SWOT analysis probably got a lot of
business student is here
it’s called strengths weaknesses
opportunities and threats now in
strengths you know we all know what
those are and we good at it we kind of
brag about it we’re good at this we’re
good at that but it’s important because
as you go out to your strengths you you
can move in there in the right direction
and at least have a good start when
you’re looking at any of your goals that
you’re dealing with my strengths
personally was okay I’m a deal maker I
raise money I build brands when I went
into the the movie studios again we
didn’t even have a script but yet we got
a 14 picture deal worth millions of
dollars just because of the things that
I was good at now this goes to my next
point that weaknesses I didn’t know how
to write a script we didn’t really had a
budget yet to do everything that we
needed to do so we had a lot of things
that we didn’t have but that’s okay at
least you got to admit and know what
your weaknesses are how are you how are
you gonna accomplish your goals if you
don’t know what your weaknesses are and
admit to them and be true to yourself
and know that look this is what I need
to do to do those things so we’ve got
great script writers we got great
distribution companies all the things
that I was not good at I made sure that
I got other folks that was around me
that was really freaking good at it
right you got to so it works then you
got opportunities out there you want to
look at the opportunities that you have
in your life you don’t want to go into
an industry that’s like like dying or
not working I mean you know think about
I wrote about in my book only crazy and
fearless when big where you know Henry
Ford was making a big transition at the
time you know people hang
and I didn’t force buggy and carriages
anymore so they’re probably a good thing
to be you know making carriages at the
time just ain’t that smart you probably
want to go through something more
mechanical then you have threats you
have to look at threats again we’re not
just talking about business here we’re
talking about your career as well as
your your personal life one of the
threats for me this hit really home
my father has diabetes and he says son
you know look you have to be aware and
watch your sugar you can’t do this you
can’t do that you know how fathers are
but he’s right you got to understand
that what’s the use of having wealth
having all these great things but I’m
blind or I’m lost a limb or not doing
the things that I want to again this is
life well we’re talking about having
total fulfillment total fulfillment so
don’t just have a job you’re working
somehow I’m just gonna make this cash
got to get this guy to get on the ground
No are you impacting other people do you
feel good at night okay are you are you
when you wake up in the morning feel
like this is what God meant me meant for
me to do so these are the things that
we’re talking about so so I have a
complete life now the next part of this
is networking I kind of like this one of
my best friend’s father told me this is
that if you got nine broke friends
you’re bound to be the tenth one okay so
hang around only winners all my boys are
winners Oh My gods are winners that’s
what we do you know but I’ll take it to
anything and any part of my life for
example you know if I’m gonna be a fast
sprinter or doing something one of the
best sprinters I’m not gonna be hanging
around walkers no I want folks that’s
gonna move that’s gonna do things that’s
gonna challenge me to be faster that’s
gonna be quicker that’s gonna be able to
do things so and it’s not about just
taking you know when you network with
people it’s about also in
you know you’re giving you know what can
you offer to this relationship whether
it be business you should also be able
to quickly identify whatever your goal
is to someone else within 20 seconds you
should be clear be very concise and know
where you’re going critical dealing with
the unknown wow that’s an entrepreneur
it is it’s a very scary place out here
man where you gonna get that next dollar
sometimes you feel like you about to do
a billion dollars million dollars the
next thing you know you may have lost 3
million I’ve been there before I’ve been
there before so how do you deal with
that fear factor of that uncertainty of
thinking that people are not going to
accept you your goals your dreams and
and and all these things or do you even
feel like you can actually do it can you
move forward can you go from here to
there and then over there then sometimes
you got to go back to here and how
people gonna feel about that I’m gonna
tell you number one you gotta have a
victorious vision you go back to your
points you gotta have that power plan
okay you got to be able to execute
overcome those obstacles
you gotta believe in yourself as a brand
know who you are as a person and be
honest with yourself that I’m willing to
do what it takes to get where I want to
go am I willing to be around the right
people at that time the last thing can I
overcome obstacles and fit and and not
be scared so I want to leave that with
you
I want you to you know be a not just a
public success and a private failure and
remember that only to crazy and fearless
when big thank you you
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