Million Dollar Days
Welcome to Million Dollar Days with Robby Choucair & George Passas. Your go-to podcast for a deep dive into the world of Life and Business Mastery.
Join hosts Robby Choucair and George Passas, a dynamic marketer and a seasoned Entrepreneur, as they navigate through an array of intriguing topics ranging from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Robby brings his marketing expertise to the table, offering insights into the latest strategies and trends. George, with his extensive experience in business, provides a grounded, practical perspective. Together, they explore everything from the feasibility of alien existence to effective goal setting, and even the nuances of religion.
Million Dollar Days is not just about business acumen; it's an exploration of life's many facets, wrapped up in conversations that are as enlightening as they are entertaining.
Tune in and be part of our journey, where every day is a million-dollar day, filled with learning, laughter, and the pursuit of mastery.
Million Dollar Days
Why Most People Learn But Never Take Action
Are you filling your cup or just escaping responsibility? This thought-provoking discussion explores the entrepreneur's eternal struggle between productivity and leisure.
Starting with a lighthearted conversation about gaming and professional ambitions, we quickly uncover the guilt many successful people feel when taking time away from work. Is playing video games truly a wasteful distraction, or could it be the very thing that replenishes your creative energy? We explore how different forms of escapism—from watching Netflix to taking vacations—are judged with varying levels of scrutiny, often unfairly.
The conversation shifts to what we call "self-development junkies"—those who attend every seminar, read all the books, yet never implement what they learn. We examine why knowledge without action is essentially worthless, and how a person who reads one book but takes action will always outperform someone who consumes endless content without implementation. Through personal stories and observations from our own entrepreneurial journeys, we offer insights on breaking this cycle.
Perhaps most powerfully, we discuss how entrepreneurs are often the primary cap on their business's potential. The limiting beliefs, fears, and habits that prevent you from taking action are likely the very things holding your business back from extraordinary growth.
Whether you're building a business, pursuing personal growth, or simply trying to find balance in a success-driven world, this episode offers a refreshing perspective on what truly matters for long-term fulfillment and achievement. Ready to stop collecting knowledge and start implementing it? This conversation might be the catalyst you need.
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Speaker 3:Are you going to empire the UFC?
Speaker 2:No, I'm going to become a full-time gamer.
Speaker 3:Look, I would do that. I'm telling you right now. Listen, anyone who knows me, if you know me and you've known me for quite some time you will know that I cannot be beaten in FIFA. No shit, I never got into FIFA. Yeah, it's a man's thing oh is it?
Speaker 2:I thought that's what it was. I think that's why I never wanted to play it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fifa is arguably one of the greatest games.
Speaker 1:What about COD?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was okay, but I wasn't.
Speaker 2:There was people who could, yeah, so you played the sport where they fell over and when no one touched them.
Speaker 3:but then actually, killing each other Story of my life. Story of my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd be curious. I wonder what's one of the biggest. Actually, I know what the biggest game in the world is Fortnite. No, I wonder what's one of the biggest. Actually, I know what the biggest game in the world is Fortnite.
Speaker 3:No, I would have said World of Warcraft.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, maybe I'm curious. I'm going to Google that now. I used to. I think it's Roblox. Oh yeah, you're probably right, Roblox.
Speaker 1:It's.
Speaker 2:Roblox. What is the most played game, should I say in the world? Yeah, Most played Popular.
Speaker 3:I would love if anyone's listening to this and you're a gamer in any way. I would love to know how I can get into it professionally. I would dedicate time to this.
Speaker 2:I did not think it would be. That Is it actually it no Counter-Strike. What Nah, counter-strike 2.
Speaker 3:There's no way, dude, it's the most played video game globally, at least in terms of PC. Can you put 2025 in there? Okay, this guy's using his 2014 Apple iPhone and he's searching PC.
Speaker 2:No, I just said video game. Most played video game, counter-strike and Go what the hell is Go.
Speaker 3:Let me use a real Google Go is Counter-Strike. Most Go is Can't Restraint most played game, global offensive Can't Restraint Minecraft, which has sold over 300 million copies. I said I've read what is the most played video game in the world in 2025 followed by PUBG and Fortnite and Roblox.
Speaker 3:There you go, anywho, back to what I was saying. If anyone's listening to this and you're a professional gamer, I would love to know how I can start a Twitch stream, a YouTube channel, whatever it is, and just destroy everyone in FIFA, because that's my jam. I'll add, though caveat, like I'm rusty. I don't spend a lot of time doing it right now, but give me two weeks and I will be my prime.
Speaker 2:I haven't picked up a PlayStation remote to play video game for at least a year, I reckon. I just find at the moment, as much as I enjoy it, like it's something I wouldn't mind doing. I just feel at the moment it's such a distraction and I feel like it's a waste of time. What are your hobbies? I just feel at the moment it's such a distraction and I feel like it's a waste of time. What are your hobbies? My hobbies I like water sports, so jet skiing I'd say that's a hobby. I enjoy going to the football. What do you do on the jet ski? Just cruise, just to go around in a few circles. It's not you know what. I've been doing it for so long that I don't get the kick I used to when I was 23 years old.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but like don't you get, so you just yeah, cruise around for a bit and then do a couple donuts and then that's about it.
Speaker 2:Then go back to shore, sit on the beach, then Nicole will take it out with the key, I'll take my son out, might take some friends out, that's about it. It's better when you got people to go around with, for sure, for sure, yeah, like my. My brother-in-law's got one now. So we go cruising, sometimes like to go down. For me, an ideal day out on the ski would be going from here to st, from st kilda down to dramana, like just go do a whole day trip all the way down there, all the way back one time I would enjoy that yes, one tank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you'll get there one one tank. What else? What else do I do? I like going to the football and watching the football, so I would say that's a hobby of mine. Other than that, not too much more. I don't mind reading every now and then. It's not a hobby, isn't it? I don't know, do you sit there like hobby time?
Speaker 3:Yeah, let's go, let's read a book. That's not fair. For some people it is. For me it's not definitely, but I do think it's an important thing that you should consume information in some way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, other than that, man. I mean, is work a hobby? Can you consider that a hobby Business? No, what is it? Is hobby just by definition, something like you do for leisure and fun?
Speaker 3:If I had to define hobby, I would say something that feeds your soul.
Speaker 2:Okay, but then business could be that for some people.
Speaker 3:No, I don't know anyone who does business and feeds their soul.
Speaker 2:You reckon, alex Hormozy doesn't.
Speaker 3:He says it. Whether it's true or not, he's a unique individual.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, I agree with that. Yeah, I mean, other than that I probably don't have too much more. Do you know what I've always wanted to do? Because I keep watching his videos. Matt Armstrong Shout out to Matt Armstrong in the UK I want to build a car. I want to buy a car and just rebuild it and just do sick shit. Why?
Speaker 3:don't you do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just don't have space I could put it in my warehouse. Ware warehouse is fucking ages away from my house, so it's like I know if I had the car, it would just sit there gather dust. I wouldn't work on it. I'd really want it to be in my garage, and my garage currently don't think it's big enough.
Speaker 1:It has a jet I can move that that's not the issue.
Speaker 2:I just don't. I think you almost need to do it competently. You kind of need like a double garage at least, because you're going to need space to move around in, and mine's more of a single garage.
Speaker 1:Definition of a hobby A small horse or a pony.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're using the wrong type of Google. That's Mongolian. That's Mongolian.
Speaker 1:Google For sure. Actual definition An activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2:Something fun I mean video games could fall into that category. I enjoy you go. Something fun, I mean video games could fall into that category. I enjoy doing that. So yes, yep, yeah, I would do that, other than that, not too much more. So what do you mean? Is gym a hobby? Could be, I suppose. Do I go there to have fun?
Speaker 3:no, not always yeah it's like one of those like it's like a good hobby, like a good habit to have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like but as I said, like I, I genuinely could see myself spending a whole day playing video games, from morning till night, just sitting on the couch. Grab a pizza, grab some drinks don't talk to me plug into the Matrix and just play all day. At the end of that day, I would feel like a horrible human being in my current life like what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 3:It's very interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just feel right a horrible human being in my current life, like what I'm doing right now. It's very interesting. Yeah. I just feel right now, where I'm at in my life, like we're talking about wanting all these things in abundance. I feel that that is so detrimental to getting all those things that I want. You could say, arguably well, it fills your cup.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Do you think you would be a better human after that day? No, no, you don't think you would be a better human after that day.
Speaker 2:No, no, you don't think you'd be a better human?
Speaker 3:I don't think look me you don't think you would be yeah, this is sideways. So you don't think you would be better off having done that thing that doesn't benefit your primary goal, but benefits the person that's driving the primary goal?
Speaker 2:I honestly don't think so. I don't think it filled me up that much. I don't know. It's a tough one. Yeah, do you get what I'm saying though? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you look at it and you're like, hey, this like if my ultimate goal is around business, and then it's like, okay, but who's driving that? I am, but if I do something like for me, it's like I go camping.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'll go into the bush for a couple of days, and I enjoy that too.
Speaker 2:Every now and again I enjoy doing the outdoor stuff I do, mate.
Speaker 3:I'm an OG. I've known you for two years. I've never been way over two years. I've, I will, fucking, I will. You would flip the day we go camping. You will flip out.
Speaker 2:You'd be like take Iggy before you leave, 100%. You'd be like where did this guy come from?
Speaker 3:that's a yes. I'll believe him when I see it start a fire with sticks and everything. Don't you? That's how long you've been camping? Don't you think feeding that person from a different avenue?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do, I'll give you another example Having kids does not in any way benefit your business. Yes, right, there's no upside to benefiting your business, but I know a lot of people who have kids and then get serious about their part of life because it's feeding the person who is driving that thing, yep, so you obviously don't believe that spending and not spending a whole day maybe spending an hour on a Sunday night once the kids have gone to bed, and you've had your day night for that week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, it's a good one. Maybe I'm just looking at it in the wrong way, possibly I think it might be the case, because I just I'll just look at it it might be a complete distraction yeah, I know, and that's what I would hate because I would get into that. I used to play. I always liked playing. What's it called? What's the type of format where you're playing a character?
Speaker 1:you play a character and you go do yeah, like that.
Speaker 2:But what's it actually called? When you're playing a character and you're going and doing missions and doing shit like that, what's the what's the what's? It's more of a role play game. What's the game? Oh, I got assassin's creed. So I love games like that, where I'm the character, I go do missions, I go do a whole bunch of things. I got the person, you level them up, you do a whole bunch of stuff like that. So traditionally, assassins creed's been like the one game I've been playing for years, because you, you go one game, the last couple of iterations of it anyway, they just go for fucking 100 hours. But you get 100 hours in gay time, just actually oh really, yeah, it's a long I think so, yeah, like it's.
Speaker 2:It's one of those world type games where you can do as much as it as you want yeah, yeah yeah, and I do because I tend to also like the story that comes with it and I like the entertainment. Yeah, I mean, I do, though that's what I'm saying, so I'll play that game. And then it's like well, I'm not just going to play it for an hour on sunday, I'm going to play it sunday, yeah, monday night and then tuesday night and, and then.
Speaker 2:Monday night, and then Tuesday night, and then Thursday night, and then the kids will go to bed and then I'll play it again that night and then I think, as that progresses, it's like fuck, look at all this time I've wasted playing this video game where I could have been doing this, I could have been reading, I could have whatever it might be.
Speaker 3:Yes, I think you can waste time.
Speaker 2:And I feel I would fall into that trap, which is why I tend to be in extremes when I play it. I'll go and not play video games for a year, but then I'll turn it back and go all right, I'm going to play it solidly for the next month.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you must genuinely have the belief that you're not a better human for having played it Perhaps, perhaps, do you know when I realized.
Speaker 2:You know, maybe it's a bit of escapism, do you?
Speaker 3:know when I was playing video games a lot during.
Speaker 2:COVID, I lived on Call of. Duty. Yeah, but I was playing it. I think, looking back and even during the moment I was playing it, to just unplug from all the stresses in my life.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:I think that might have. That could be a good thing, but maybe that's why I have a bit of bad association with it at the moment.
Speaker 3:There's lots of things that are escapism, but there's nothing wrong with watching movies.
Speaker 2:Movies are escapism, and I do that all the time yeah.
Speaker 3:Watching a TV show is escapism. Watching Netflix is escapism, without a doubt it is. You're escaping from the current reality and distracting your brain with something else, but I just think it's. We demonize the video game.
Speaker 2:A holiday is escapism.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:It is. You're separating yourself from what is current reality and saying I'm going to change my environment now and go over there. But, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. In my opinion, it's only when you're overdoing it, yes, and you're not facing something. That's when it becomes a problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but look, if it's stopping you from taking action and getting things done, then it's probably not the right thing. But I think sometimes you need to do some things that are going to help you take those actions as well, and if that means playing a game or reading a book or going on the jet ski, you've got to do that shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gotta do that shit. Yeah, I think that's really important. I think you do. Yeah, but the longest time. I also felt that I didn't need to do that either as in any of that stuff, just wanted to work on the business yeah, but that's okay too, yeah
Speaker 2:I agree, yeah, okay, because I did feel like that for a period of time and even my wife would tell me off. My dad would always tell me off. It's like what did you do the other day? Oh, literally the day we got back from Vegas, I was in the office, came here in the office and I was working and my dad calls me and says hey, what are you doing? He goes how was your trip Good? He goes go home, relax. I'm like, hey, you relax, I've got shit to do.
Speaker 2:But for me it wasn't a chore being here. I wasn't. Oh, I've got to go to the fucking office. What else am I going to do? I was going to sit at home and watch TV. Why not be here and be productive and do work For me? I never really felt that I get very motivated being at work Sunday nights. I'm ready, like I'm ready, to go Monday. Let's fucking go, I've got shit to do. That helps me as far as being here, because I don't. I felt that if I didn't, if I, if this was a drainer to me being at work.
Speaker 3:I think of the type of personality that I would stop doing it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I guess you're looking at the games as escapism. Then I think 100% I am yeah, and that's probably why I don't pick it up to start playing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean this is a cool topic because you know a lot of people would be overworked.
Speaker 2:I find that a lot of people specifically in construction as well, and even more so if you're a trade. You tend to be working throughout the day and then you come home and you jump on the computer and do quotes, so your day doesn't finish when you get home. Even though you might be 7 to 3.30, you knock off at 3.30, then you come home and you got 15 emails from 15, 100 emails from different builders price this job, do this job. So then you got to sit there and price up a project whilst your family's inside eating dinner or whilst your kids are in bed. Whilst your family's in bed you're pricing work and then you're doing invoicing, then you're reconciling accounts, then you're ordering material for the next day. So a lot of the time, I reckon business owners may not feel the opportunity for them to be able to switch off and fill their cup up with things that they enjoy doing. Do you think a lot of business owners would fall into that trap?
Speaker 1:No no.
Speaker 2:I don't have sympathy for that, or empathy, or whatever, it's not the sympathy, but it's more them not filling up their cup. Do you feel that people would? Just from what I gather and from what I've seen with a lot of people that own their own business is that they're always on, they tend not to switch off and they tend to bring a lot of that stuff home with them and then they let go of the holidays, they let go of going out, they let go of the things that fill their cup up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but so like my thing with anything around, that is always like I refuse to be, to believe that I'm a victim for anything in my life. Oh, without a doubt, like anything, and if I'm not going to, if you're doing the same thing as me, I'm not going to feel sorry for you.
Speaker 2:I'm not. I'm just not. Oh man, I've heard this great thing on Diary of a CEO the other day, okay it was. He was talking to some lady and she was saying how, if you go through adversity or through difficult aspects in your life, you know something really difficult, really hard, that you have worked extremely hard to get through. You went through all the turmoil, the blood, sweat and tears and you get through it. You actually have less empathy for people going through that same process because you're like, hey, toughen up, I've done it, fucking, go. Yeah. And that's how I feel. Yeah, me too. And once they said that I was like, wow, I feel the same when something comes up now, it's like I'm almost annoyed, whereas you should be like, oh, I feel for you, brother, I've been through that. That was hard. But now I'm like, hey, shut the fuck up, hurry up and get it done. This is part of the game.
Speaker 3:You don't like it, stop playing. Also, you chose to open a business. You can go get a job, dude, this is a very comfortable country we live in. Yeah, you know what I mean you can go and get a 9 to 5 anywhere and clock off at 5.30 and be home by 6 and do all of that.
Speaker 2:And if it makes you happy, like we said before, yeah, and that's great.
Speaker 3:Do that you win? Yeah, but do I feel sorry for people who are driving to get more? No, if anything, I'm excited for you. Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3:yeah, exactly yeah, you're doing quotes on our sick, though wait till you can finally put someone on to do those quotes for you, and then eventually you know what I mean. And it's like this is a game. I see business as a game. Yeah, it is, do you know? And that's what. Like I don't, I have zero. I hadn't heard what you said. That I find it very interesting, but I have zero. I don't feel bad yeah at all.
Speaker 3:I don't feel bad. And I don't feel bad when people try and say things to me like oh, you know, oh, but because you're a man, this, oh, because of your background, this, oh, but because you grew up here, this, and I said, no, good, I'm going up against, like I went to, like a real good example. I went to a public school. I went to a shit school. Dude, I didn't even finish high school, didn't you? No, did I know that? Maybe I don't know, but when I go up against people and they're like private school, blah, blah, blah, I fucking love it, cause I sit there like let me show you, like that doesn't make a difference, I'm going to knock you out the park here.
Speaker 1:You know what I?
Speaker 3:mean it kind of fucking drives me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. And that's what my son said, this the other day, when we're talking about him. Uh, when we passed this Lamborghini, I said to him he cause he was watching it on YouTube and he goes, he was watching something. He said most millionaires never finished high school. Most people that are ultimately really hugely successful have never even finished high school. I said you know why that is? It's because they tend to think differently to everyone else. Everyone else has been taught to do something in a certain way and they've gone. Well, how about I do it this way? It's indoctrination. Yeah, school, without a doubt it is. Yeah, without a doubt it is nothing.
Speaker 3:It's a bad thing, but like look, it's necessary for the economy.
Speaker 2:I suppose Not every single person can be a business owner. You know people need that needs a workforce. People need to do the do, so you're going to need people to do that and that's what, effectively, the school system does is breed the workforce for the country.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And those that go out and start their own business or do something differently tend to reap the rewards, but it does come with a lot of um, a lot of challenges along the way, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I have zero empathy, sympathy I don't know what the word is. I don't know what the difference between those two words is. One is like I feel for you, the other one's like. Difference between those two words is one is like I feel for you, the other one's like I understand or something, but tomato zero, zero zilch zero, and if you feel sorry for yourself, then I feel sorry for you play some video games play some video games, do some something like, take some action.
Speaker 3:You know I mean talking about, um, filling up your cup, over, overworking, quoting and that the opposite end of that is like the person who does nothing Do you know what I mean? Or does the stuff that makes them feel like they're doing stuff but does nothing? And we all know people like this. We all know people who are claiming that they're doing a whole bunch of stuff by doing the stuff that doesn't actually move the needle.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know I read 52 books this year and it's like great. What have you done? Nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I've been to this seminar. I bought this training. I did this, yeah. Or I've applied for 20 jobs this week and you don't. You're not working, no. What the fuck else are you doing? How long will it take you? An hour, yeah. What are you doing the rest of your time? Why don't you apply for 20 jobs an hour? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3:And it's like which end of the spectrum would you rather be at? Would you rather be the person who's constantly working and getting shit done and moving the needle in the direction that they want in their life? Would you rather be the? We all know like? There's a term for it in the personal development world. Everyone knows someone who's a. You've all seen the person that you've seen at a training and then gone to a different training and seen the same person. And they're in the same position, doing the exact same shit. And the term for this you may have heard it or not, but it's a self-development junkie. And they're the person who goes and listens to all the trainings and takes all the notes and write everything down and be like, yeah, it's really good. And then does nothing with it because the feeling of feeling like they're doing something has satiated them enough, as opposed to actually doing the do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and we've been to plenty of those courses over the years and seen those people. You know they go there, they keep doing those things, being in the event space now and running events. You see the same faces sometimes and the same names pop up Like oh yeah, you came to this last year, you came to this a couple of years ago, you came to this last month and you're back again. Great Good that you're taking action. Why aren't you taking the next step? Why aren't you taking the next step? Why aren't you taking the next one? Why aren't you taking the next step? Why aren't you taking the next one? And yeah, I feel that they feel motivated in the moment and they may do stuff in the days following, but then it drops off.
Speaker 3:Why do you reckon it does?
Speaker 2:Well, we spoke about motivation. I think it's a lack of discipline as well. They don't hold themselves accountable to go. Okay, I've spent $2,000 on this course, Now I need to go and take it to the next level and do what I've learned. So they'll do it once, twice, maybe not get the result they thought, and go. Well, this doesn't work. I'm just too busy. I'm going to keep processing invoices.
Speaker 3:Have you ever lacked discipline in a particular area?
Speaker 1:Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 3:Over another one. What?
Speaker 2:do you?
Speaker 3:mean so like? Have you ever, you know, been disciplined with work? Yeah, but haven't been going to the gym. Oh without a doubt, or been disciplined with the gym, not gone to work but not feeding your relationships.
Speaker 2:Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 3:So what is it? Do you think?
Speaker 2:I think it's for me, the way I see it, it's a matter of priority. I think it's a, for me, the way I see it, it's a matter of priority. I think it's a matter of priority as far as what's important to you at that moment in time.
Speaker 3:But they're obviously doing the thing because they feel like they're doing something. Yeah, they're going to the event, they're showing up.
Speaker 2:They feel like they're Well, maybe it's self-awareness then, isn't it? Maybe they feel like they're improving each time they come to these events. That's why they love going there, because they do. They get that hit and go. Well, cool, that was great. I learned something I didn't know the other day, and maybe they do implement a little bit.
Speaker 3:People get addicted to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I mean. They get addicted to that feeling of going on.
Speaker 3:I feel like I'm doing.
Speaker 2:Also, the FOMO aspect of it, too, would kick in. They don't want to miss out. It was so good last time. I don't want to miss out and not learn something or connect with this person Again. I've got to go to this thing. So an example that I can think of just straight off the bat is we've gone both of you and I have done a full training, spent tens of thousands of dollars on how to speak on stage. Now let's just say in our class of people say the people that we went from stage one to stage three all the way through there was probably 50, 60 people that went through that whole series of training.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Thereabouts. How many speakers have come out?
Speaker 3:of that, I couldn't. I could count them on one hand, on one hand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. So you're talking, say, less than 5%, less than 5% of people who have paid the same money as us to learn those skills have actually used those skills in their day-to-day life or their business. Now they might go oh, no, no, I'm a professional speaker now because I've got the training. But why do it? What was the point? If being on stage and speaking in front of tens of thousands of people, or 100 people or 50 people, if that was never going to be part of what your development needed to be in your life or business, why go and spend that money? And I think there was an element again of that oh, I don't want to miss out. Oh, I've done the first level of that. Oh, I don't want to miss out, I've done the first level. I may as well finish the second and third level. So I can say I'm a certified NLP coach. Or I can say I'm a You're certified, I'm certified. I've got a tattoo on my back as well. But that's just one course I'm thinking of. But I've been to other ones where it's the exact same thing too.
Speaker 2:People didn't action post that training. Recently this year, we went to Las Vegas and went to a few seminars there as well. I looked at that. I was like, well, have I actioned anything out of those trainings? The answer is yes, minor, major. If I didn't think it was beneficial, why would I action it? Why would I go there and go oh, I better go and review that and learn that and implement that. If I didn't think it was beneficial, why would I action it? Like, why would I go there and go oh, better go and review that and learn that and implement that if I'm doing something better. But I always go there with the intent of it of me leaving there and to implement something and look, you might go to one of these things and not learn anything and go. Look, that wasn't necessarily for me. I don't think I'm going to benefit from that. That's fine.
Speaker 3:But you always learn something. Yeah, like even if it's what not to do Exactly. Exactly right, you're just like okay, cool, I'm not doing that Exactly right. You know what I mean? Yeah, Good to know that other people are going to be doing that, so I can combat that.
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 3:I mean With whatever it is that you're offering.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely so my advice to anyone.
Speaker 2:I think they get in their own way more than anything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but people who get in their own way don't know, they're getting in their own way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or self-awareness, but you can't teach that. How do you teach it? I try and call people up on it sometimes when I go to events. No, but at events, because I'm limited with my time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:When people say, oh, I really want to join your program, well, fucking join it.
Speaker 2:No, you can. You can join it. You go, put pen to paper, you tap the fucking card and then you go and join it. Oh yeah, but at the moment, okay, man, like you are getting in your own way, you are getting in your own way, you are making this not happen right now. It's not me, it's you, because if I had the cure for cancer and you had cancer and all you had to do was go and tap that card, you would fucking tap it, wouldn't you? Yes, because you know what I'm going to give you is going to help you and solve your problems. So what is the disconnect? Why aren't you tapping? Why are you getting in your own way? What constraint are you putting there? Sometimes you have to be that blunt with people, but again, sometimes even that extreme example doesn't always work either, I think there's probably an element of fear around it too.
Speaker 2:Fear of what? Fear of failure, fear of loss If they invest the money and it doesn't work out. Fear of their own inadequacies in their abilities. Maybe that's why they don't take the action. What's your biggest fear? I don't, I mean personally in business.
Speaker 3:Just in general, I guess in business, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, professionally, I don't really know, I don't really focus on it, should I I?
Speaker 3:don't know if you should focus on it, but you should. Know what it is. If it's existent, you should be aware of it, like I could say mine would be. Like my thing and I think this helps me push forward is I don't want to look back and say, fuck man, I should have you know what. I mean it's like the fear of regret.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:See, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like if you died tomorrow touch wood, if you died tomorrow, would you be like or you knew you were dying tomorrow and would you go shit. I didn't do that. One thing I wanted to do.
Speaker 3:No, no, not that, not like that. More like, uh, like if I, if I was laying on my deathbed to look back and be like gave it a shake yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like fucking gave it a good spin. Yeah, as opposed to like fuck me through the motion. I'm so worried about what those people are thinking about me, and it's like who gives a fuck, do you know? I mean, there's people that have walked this earth that are gone now that no one will ever speak about again, and there's a good fucking chance that we're all going to be just like that.
Speaker 3:Do you know what I mean? And believe what you want about afterlife, et cetera religious, not religious. The fact of the matter is that you're here now and One day you won't be, One day you won't be.
Speaker 2:This and you're here now. One day you won't be. One day you won't be. This podcast will be forever, though, and the only way that people could forever listen to this podcast is if they subscribe and their children's children's children then also subscribe.
Speaker 3:Let me see all my great granddad was subscribed to. That's right, million Dollars Days. Is that all, george and Robbie? Is that all it was? Well, yeah, that's all milk that's how we buy milk now, what are they talking about? Is that all they made? Wow, these guys were trying to get milk every day. Uh, good, um, and that's so funny.
Speaker 3:Geez, shouldn't aimed bigger, you're gonna have to change the neon sign yeah, uh, but yeah, that's that's like, and I think that pushes me forward, because then it's like well, if not now, when? Like, what are you going to like you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean. I wouldn't say that's a fear, but it is a motivating factor. It's a fear, no for me, I'm saying, not for you. Oh yeah, as in, as in, that being a fear of mine, to give it a nudge and to do everything I need to do Because I feel that I'm on that path. I feel that I am kind of there.
Speaker 2:But I always feel that there is more too. This comes back to the whole video game things. I always feel that level of guilt Fuck, I should be doing this, I should be doing this, I should be doing this instead. So I do ask myself the question as well Should I be doing more? Should I be going and investing in the stock market?
Speaker 2:My old man's on to me about it heaps over the last six months. Open up your account, get it ready, get it ready, you've got to buy, you've got to buy, you've got to buy. I'm like, fuck, okay, I will, but I'm doing so much. Is that a distraction? Or should I fucking do it and have that going and have this going and have this going and have that going and have this going and have this going? So I do feel that I'm shaking things up, but I always feel like I can do more too. But I just like to challenge myself a little bit too, and I mean that's probably a deciding, one of the main reasons why, whenever I go to these events, I make it a priority of mine to actually action shit out of that event, not just take it in, never look at it again, move on, and maybe that's what people lack.
Speaker 3:Which part.
Speaker 2:They lack that-. Taking the action, yeah to take the action, but also again we're saying this self-awareness. Maybe they need to tap into why they're going there in the first place. Why are you actually going there? Something we did that was powerful the other day was getting people to write down their intent at the start of the day. I felt that that had a huge impact on the room, like why are you actually here?
Speaker 2:Forget the fact that you're here to try and like what do you want, selfishly, out of this room today? What do you want out of it? And I think that's good to actually go. You know what? Fuck? Tell me. Do you want to learn how to make a million bucks today? Is that what it is in this room? Write that down. Do you want to learn how to scale your business to $50 million?
Speaker 3:Yeah, isn't it also a form of procrastination?
Speaker 1:Yeah, which, what is?
Speaker 3:The not taking action like the saying I've got to do like, wait till I'm going to go back to built mastery. You know what I mean, cause I know that when I go back now, now I'm in a different position and I'll go back now and then.
Speaker 2:I'll get what I need from it. Yep, I guarantee you. There's so many people. When I did my last event, they all said, man, we're in, we are doing this Like, we are so committed to this thing. I want to do it. I guarantee you, 90% of those people will never join the program. Guarantee it, because they're just not going to come back, or they'll look. They may call me in a few years time when it hurts more, and then they'll say, oh, you know, I should have joined up two years ago. Oh well, you should have. Yeah, you would have had the results by now. But most of the people, as you said, I think they feel good in the moment and then they leave and then it's like all their limiting beliefs come back. Maybe they go home and speak to their partner.
Speaker 2:Maybe they go home and they'll speak to their wife or their husband and go hey, I've been thinking about joining this program. It's $40,000. It's $50,000. What? Do you know? How much the mortgage is this week Really, how are you going to pay for the school fees? How are you going to do this? You're going to go spend that much money on this. And then they talk yeah, you're right, sorry, yeah, it's not the right thing for us right now. And then they again, that limiting belief talks them out of it. And then they just go to the next training because, oh, maybe I'll just learn that one thing here and I don't have to spend that much money, or I don't have to spend that much time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think there's many factors. There's a lot of different reasons why people don't, but there comes a point I think people need to connect the dots. I think people need to. I used to always say this I used to smoke, a long time ago, ciggies and I used to. I quit like that from out of nowhere and I used to always tell people like if you, if you still smoke, if anyone can listen to this, if you still smoke, if you're, if you still smoke, if anyone can listen to this, if you still smoke, you haven't made the connection between you punching those dots and you and your deathbed from cause. Cause it's killing you. That's just a reality.
Speaker 3:And I think people need to connect the dots like that, like in the sense of, if I don't take this leap, no matter how scary, whatever it is, that next step of action is calling that person, doing that thing, buying that program, whatever it is, you know, getting that coach or whatever it is for you. In your next step, you need to make the connection between that and what it's going to cost you when you can't do it anymore. You know what I mean. Most people, if you make the connection, especially if someone's got kids, if you make the connection between you smoking ciggies and then you're not going to see your kids grow up because you get the call tomorrow and they say, oh, we just picked up on this thing. I guarantee you, if people can have a dream about that, wake up and they'll stop. But they don't connect the dots because it's too painful.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And they ignore it. Yeah, you know what I mean and I think if you're a person who goes to all these programs or, you know, reads a hundred books a year, whatever it might be, a person who reads one book a year and takes the action from it moves further than the person who reads 100 and does nothing. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Knowledge is potential power.
Speaker 2:That's right, and it's like saying I think I've got someone in the family, whatever it is a cousin or some shit. I think I've got someone in the family, whatever it is a cousin or some shit. They've gone to do, they've gone to university and they've got their degree and then they got a master's degree and then they got a doctorate degree or their doctorate in that field let's just say it's accounting or some shit.
Speaker 3:A doctorate in accounting.
Speaker 2:You get a doctorate, I think, in almost anything. You get a doctorate in construction. You know a doctorate, I think, in almost anything. You get a doctorate in construction.
Speaker 3:You know, now, when I fill out a form and it's like what's your thing, I tick doctor, Do you? Yeah, why not? What are they going to do? They say doctor to care. I say yes.
Speaker 2:What do you want?
Speaker 3:Do you know? When you jump on a plane, they actually ask you more all of a sudden You're picking its face massively.
Speaker 2:Huge Might get upgraded in life.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, so you're a doctor. Can you come?
Speaker 2:this way, nice. What are we talking about now?
Speaker 3:You were talking about your family friend.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's right. So it's like they get that doctorate and then they end up working at wherever Coles, I don't know. But my point is it's like oh, you're so smart. They feel that sense of accomplishment and also Acknowledgement. Yeah, and acknowledgement Like oh, I've got my doctorate in accounting, I'm smart.
Speaker 3:I went to RMIT. I've done this, yeah, I've done this?
Speaker 2:Oh, I went to. I've done this. Yeah, I've done this. Oh, I went to melbourne university. I've done 13, 15 years of school, of tertiary education. I've written a thesis on accounting and it's like you've done nothing. You live at home with your fucking parents. There's a great thing. I mean like you've done nothing with your fucking life. Do you still follow bradley?
Speaker 3:yes, it's a great thing, brad, and he's like I dropped out of high school, blah, blah, blah. He's like. Now he goes. I've got two MBAs, four masters and they all work for me.
Speaker 2:So good, though so good. Yeah, one of my old business partners used to say I'm a C-grade student that employs A-grade people. To say I'm a C-grade student that employs A-grade people, he goes. I never got anything over a C at school when I was there and he dropped out in year 10. He goes, I'm a C-grade student and I just got A-grades working for me. But yeah, that's just an example of that type of person that maybe these people go into these trainings and events. They just feel smarter and like they're doing stuff just because they've done that training course and they tick it off. Well, yeah, I'm a nlp coach, I'm a professional speaker, I've been to this training, I've done tony robbins course, I've done grand cardone's trainings.
Speaker 2:Like I'm a professional salesperson now.
Speaker 3:Like because that's what we're taught to do in school, correct?
Speaker 1:yeah, that's right, as long as you get the certificates and you do this thing, then you're accomplished.
Speaker 2:You are the best. Yeah, there's this. One image that I've seen, and probably most of you have seen it too is there's a picture of all these different animals a goat, a fish, a snake, a rabbit, an elephant and a zebra standing in a line. And then there's a person at the front and said right, everyone, now we're going to test you all on how successful you're going to be in life by your ability to climb this tree. And they're all looking at each other like monkeys fucking over the moon. He goes oh, how good is this, I'm going to be able to climb this tree. The goldfish is like what the fuck? How am I going to climb a tree? I'm in water. How am I going to climb a tree? I'm in water. And that's effectively the schooling system. They're testing absolutely every single person and every single one on how successful they're going to be at life by their ability to memorize and pass a test.
Speaker 3:School's supposed to get you ready for life, but it doesn't get you ready for life. No, that's right. I heard someone say the other day you should be able to use your phone during a test and you could just look up the answers. He's like, well, you can do that in life. Like isn't school supposed to get you ready for life? Like, if you're going to have this thing on you in life, why can't you just use it for school?
Speaker 2:Gary Vaynerchuk says that too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's like it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2:Why do I need to know the capital of fucking?
Speaker 3:Africa? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Why do I need to know these things?
Speaker 3:or who the prime minister was who was it? Do you remember? It was on an ad. It was on an ad, come on.
Speaker 2:I'll know it when you say it, but whatever.
Speaker 3:Me. You're going to know A hundred percent. You know, of course.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell you all on the next episode. But yeah, it's look, just action. Self-awareness that's what these people are lacking.
Speaker 3:I think having the you know, you spoke about intention before but having the thing of like, okay, what am I going to actually get out of this? Like, what am I looking for? What am I? What's the one thing I'm going to implement?
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's like okay, cool, I'm going to go to this thing. I'm going to sit here for this one day, three days, 47 days, however long the event is. But what is my ultimate goal to get from this? And it's like I want one thing that I can go and action. Okay, cool, and take one. If you go and you action one thing and someone else goes and doesn't action anything, you're up. You're up. You know what I mean. You're winning, you are up. When was the last time you revised your notes from the last training you went to?
Speaker 2:Never.
Speaker 1:You Revised Like has he gone through them, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, just recently when I went to the Alex or Mosey thing. Yeah, I actually genuinely opened the book and was looking at stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I think most people don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's cool. Yeah, look. But I also say it is, the notes aren't always there for you to go through when you get home. It is also about retaining the information during the training. Yeah, but I specifically knew there was things in there that I wanted to take out, so I did look at it when I got back. That's what I mean. So I actioned things when I got back to the office. It wasn't just put it in the bottom of the drawer, did that course Cool. Tick the box horse cool tick the box.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I saw alex homozy. You haven't like big fucking deal. What was the? He doesn't remember my name?
Speaker 2:what was the you?
Speaker 3:know again george, george, um, what was the biggest thing with which you went through the book in here like, what did you? What was the one thing you implemented?
Speaker 2:oh, I was looking at stuff that I could help other people with for a particular training that I was doing um that I implemented in my own trainings as well because I thought it was valuable. So I looked at some of that thing, some of that for that particular reason why I was reviewing it. But the training itself, like it was good. I still feel that there's value in what they do and what they're about. Might still look at it in the future. As far as continuing on the training, but at this point in time I didn't think it was the best thing for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think you didn't think it was the best thing for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, if I did, I would have done it right there and then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so what did you think was missing?
Speaker 2:It was probably, it was just the commitment for myself, I think, is the main thing, financially and time-wise as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, what do you think people should do if they are in that position?
Speaker 2:At an event or like at a training, yeah, or they're just constantly. Going to these things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, learning and not doing anything about it, or they. You know, I attend all the seminars, I read all the books. I'm still in the same position.
Speaker 2:Well, it's just a self-assessment then, isn't it? Why? What are you not doing? What are you not doing in that moment, like you've been to enough? Now? If you've been to that many things, surely you've learned a couple of things along the way. Why haven't you implemented any of those things? Or have you and has it failed? If it's failed, did you do it properly, or was it the right thing for your business? Maybe these events you're going to, maybe you're coming and seeing me when you're a florist I don't know the first thing about flowers. I'm colorblind.
Speaker 3:What's your favorite flower? I'm not colorblind. What's?
Speaker 2:your favorite flower, dandelions. Is that a real flower? It is, of course it is.
Speaker 3:Is it?
Speaker 2:really Everyone knows dandelions.
Speaker 3:Fair enough. Where was I going with that? Yes, I had no idea I was going to go somewhere. Yes, I had no idea I was going to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2:So what should they do? Yeah, I mean. The first thing is a self-assessment. Why are you going to keep spending time and money the more thing is the time just sitting there in that room? Are you getting genuine connections out of the room? Are you getting the knowledge that you need out of that room? Or maybe it's the wrong room? Maybe you're going to the wrong rooms. Maybe you need to start fresh and go seek someone else. Who knows?
Speaker 3:Yeah, or maybe the problem isn't in the room, maybe it's in your head. That's right. As a business owner, you are the biggest cap to your business's potential. How well your business is doing is 95% a reflection on you. I think there are some external things. Yeah, like if you're in a bad market economy you know, most big businesses were built in bad economies Markets you can control this, but you choose the market too. Yeah, if you're stuck in the same position and I'll share this to close out this episode I had a call with someone and they were telling me about how, uh, they they need to overcome this next hurdle, but they don't know how.
Speaker 3:And I was like, okay, well, what's the problem? And they're like, oh, we don't have leads. And I was like, okay, cool, so can we take on more work? And they're like, oh, no, we can't, we're full. I was like, oh, so the problem isn't you don't have leads, it's that you're full. And they're like, yeah, but we're not making money. And I was like so you're full, you're not making money and you don't have leads. And he's like, yeah, and I was like dude, you're the problem. This is all in your head. You know what I mean. How can all those things be happening? You know what I mean. It doesn't make any sense. You think you need leads?
Speaker 3:no money, but you can't take on any more work and I'm like and so you go from marketing to a business coach. Me, dude, I can't. I go from marketing to therapist so much it's not even funny. I'm gonna raise my rates and start saying, like this is a therapy call. Now what if those people are filling?
Speaker 1:the wrong cup because you said they're in their head right yeah our head is like made out of like chemicals and shit, dopamine, everything and those self-developing things give you a boost of rush yeah, they're like they're just filled with it you saw it at our last event, like how pumped everyone was in and then that's it.
Speaker 3:They're happy with that, so they're filling the wrong cup to begin with yeah, but then they keep going around in the same loops, over and over and over and over, you know. But if they were content, if they were happy with everything, and it was like I'm getting everything I need out of just attending so the first cause is incorrect to begin with, isn't it what? Do you?
Speaker 1:mean the first cause. So they're trying to fill the developing cup, whereas it should be the expanding cup, not the developing one I think it's more so the using what you know more than anything else.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean because, like, they've learned stuff they haven't implemented and then they continue on in that same round. And if you go to these seminars and you're there just to you know, connect with people and network cool, but that's a result.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's a result. That's that's a result, that's an actionable item that they're going there for. Yeah, because I know people, I would say most people don't do it.
Speaker 2:I know people we both know this person that has gone to the same training about 12 times and it's a four-day training and he's been to it 12 times. I said, dude, what are you doing? He goes. Every time I go, he goes. I know the thing off by heart, he goes. But every time I go I get new clients, he goes, so I go there. For that reason I said, okay, that's fair enough. So he's not necessarily going there for the training specifically, even though he goes. Yeah, look, I've been there enough now I almost know it off by heart. But I do get. I still write stuff down. I'll still get a few things here and there, but it goes. I go to the network, I get some numbers. We end up signing a few people up each time we go. So I don't care, that's alright then.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, that person has a reason to go back, I guess, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, exactly Awesome. Well, well, well, well, touching that event, space world and some video game world, which will probably need some help Tell me how to get my Twitch set up. It's still on PlayStation, don't you? Isn't it an app? It's an account. I'm sure you can figure it out.
Speaker 3:Is it 100%? I don't have a clue at all, you'll figure it out. I just want people to tune in.
Speaker 2:What you play FIFA, yeah, you play fifa, yeah, because you're a gun or call of duty. What's your? Do you play lebanon when you? Is that your team? Of course, who else?
Speaker 3:would you play lebanon or australia?
Speaker 2:and you dominate the world. Other countries like the teams better psn network.
Speaker 3:Oh sick, I haven't done that before lebanese, although my son plays on my account.
Speaker 2:Lebanese Warrior 77. Please tell me, that's real nah please tell me that's real nah that would be. That would be the greatest thing ever. It's alright.
Speaker 3:I'm Greek, nah, I've got a weird PlayStation name. It's like Moon Pie August. Yeah, that was my line.
Speaker 2:That would also. I bought my PlayStation second hand. Oh, did you?
Speaker 3:so you just kept their account. I moved all the details over to mine and just kept rolling them Still log into shout out to Jordan. Still log into the user and it says Jordan, cool, I've had it for like five years, dude, that is funny. Just never, ever, ever changed it Too good.
Speaker 2:Too good. Well, you've got other things that you need to be doing instead of wasting your time changing usernames.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like filling my cup.
Speaker 2:That's right. Well, guys, fill your cup, take action, self-audit yourself and see what's going on in your life.
Speaker 3:Self-audit yourself.
Speaker 2:Self-audit yourself.
Speaker 3:Self-audit someone else. You can't.
Speaker 2:No, you can't do that you can't do, that, that's impossible. But thank you very much for tuning in again for Million Dollar Days and we look forward to seeing you next week and, as always, I hope you're having a million-dollar day. Cannot wait for the next episode. Bye, everybody, peace out.
