one of my best friends had a near
six-figure salary job
and he lost it and today he’s driving
for ubereats making about 15
an hour i was thinking about this while
i’m in this crazy 23 000
a month malibu house what would i do if
i lost everything
i wanted to put together a plan for him
and for you actionable stuff that you
can do immediately to start getting
results for yourself
i love you i want to see you succeed
step one take inventory of all the atms
in your life these are your assets
so the first one is your relationship
assets number one look for people that
have businesses
or have money and figure out what can i
do
to help those people the second thing
you do in your relationship atms is
who have i worked with as a client or as
a banker or as an accountant or as even
your dentist
that has a business or you’ve paid them
in the past and potentially you can go
and figure out something to do
now second one is your superpowers so
your superpowers are
what are the skills that i can use to
make money so for me it would be email
marketing
probably how to do this youtube stuff
and also just how to run online
businesses and i promise you that you
have a superpower do not be discouraged
so if you don’t know what your
superpower is
just text me no i’m kidding text your
best friend and say yo what do you think
my superpower is
all right and number three in terms of
your assets it’s literally your physical
assets so do you have any bikes do you
have any cameras do you have any
clothing
that you can actually sell to make some
money you can do facebook you can do
craigslist you can do ebay whatever that
is
as well you can go ask any of your
friends and say yo if you have anything
to sell give it to me and i’ll split the
money with you so those are our three
atms to just get started
make sure you stay towards the end where
i talk about actionable things you can
do to be building your network for the
future step two
super crystal clear frickin goals and
the way i break down the goals is in 30
and 365 days
and why i recommend that is that i want
you to have something to look forward to
that’s way out there so you’re like ah
i want to get there but also have chunky
stuff that you can do
right now the way i like to approach is
that i create a fantasy list yes i dried
out a fictional story of my life
thinking
man where do i want to be in a year and
once you’ve done that that’s your 365
plan
print that thing out put it on your
mirror put it on your phone
tell everybody that’s step one step two
is now you have your dream about where
you want to be going you have to
actually get started now
what i recommend is do 30 day plans so i
like running out in the next 30 days
here’s what i’m going to do
to help get to my future goal now that
you have your 30 and 365 plans what i
highly recommend you doing is find an
accountability buddy
this is someone that will call you on
your true story
so what you need to do is every monday
say this is what i’m doing this week
and then on friday you just check back
with them and you do that every single
week i promise you as long as you have
someone that you respect that calls you
out
you will get the results you will start
moving forward in your life by the way
if you don’t have someone you can join
okdor.com group it’s a free facebook
group we have to find other smart people
to help you out
number three make money immediately you
need oxygen to live
you need to actually make some money so
you’re not stressing out about that
every single day
so number one i do recommend going and
doing delivery jobs like ubereats like
grubhub or doordash or whatever business
is out there
just get money coming in so that your
foundation is set and you’re not having
to stress about it it is very hard to
thrive
when you’re worried about just paying
the bills immediately now step two
sell everything that you put together in
your assets in part one so yes you
figured out here’s all the items i have
or my friends have
sell all of them and guess what you
might actually find out there’s some
type of interesting business in there
for you
step three if you’ve done any consulting
as i talked about in your relationships
if you’ve done consulting or freelancing
go back to those people and offer them
services or ask for referrals
if you haven’t yet make sure to hit that
subscribe and notification bell i put
out three videos every single week to
help you
on your entrepreneurial journey number
four lower your cost of living
this enables you to take more risks and
reduces the pressure that you have to
make money
because no one likes anyone needy you
guys know how i’m talking about those
desperate people
so number one to lower your cost of
living negotiate every single bill in
your subscription
so if you have cell phone bills if you
have internet bills if there’s bills you
can cancel do that immediately
right now secondly reduce your rent for
the three years after i graduated
college i lived in my mom’s house and my
aunt’s basement thanks aunt rhonda
and i know you’re like well i’m too good
for that what i have found is that if
i’m not having to worry about how much
money i make or i can reduce how much i
have to make it gives me the freedom and
the creativity to actually work on
things i really want to and then end up
making a lot more money so
reduce these costs and suck up your
pride which is the hard part of this
experience
and number three refinance your loans if
you have any i did this for my house
recently especially while rates are low
by the way one of the things i want you
to take a quick mental break as we’re
talking about things you would do if you
lost everything and what i would do
right now
is think about this as a story if you
were reading the novel of your life
sometime in the future
think about how you want to look back on
yourself you’re going to say wow man i
didn’t have a job
i didn’t have money but i started taking
some of the steps that were in this
video and i started helping myself and
look how where the guy or girl ended up
being
and that’s kind of for you to decide who
you want to be in the story and where
you want to be ending up
number five don’t apply for regular jobs
regularly see what i did there number
one look in your network to see if
anyone knows anyone at any of the
companies you’re applying for having a
referral is
always a better way of getting a job
than just sending in your resume cold
number two
do an insane amount of prep work for
every job you’re applying for i have one
of my best friends john ross applied for
a job
at a very very cool company i saw him
spend between 60 and 80 hours
just preparing for the interviews and
guess what he ended up getting the job
so you have to ask yourself if you’re
competing with thousands of other people
for these jobs
how are you actually going to stand out
number three apply for these jobs
differently everyone just sends in the
resume like all the other schmoes but
trust me that’s not you i know you so
number one if you’re
applying for a sales job at any single
company when you’re applying
bring that company a customer if you’re
applying for a marketing position
bring them the marketing plan if you’re
applying for customer support go and do
an analysis of their customer support
and bring them a review saying
here’s a report showing all the things
that you guys can improve in your
customer support to be in the one
percent you just have to do one percent
more than everyone else is doing for you
to get there by the way you sexy people
if you like this video hit that thumbs
up button
come on now so number six you gotta do
things to build confidence within
your control a lot of times when you’ve
lost all your money and you don’t have
jobs and you’re feeling discouraged
you feel like a lot of the other people
are kind of affecting how your emotions
are feeling so we need to be building up
your confidence and your success within
things that you can do so number one
the maker morning routine if you haven’t
seen that video it’s in the description
or it’ll be somewhere on the sidebar but
the maker morning routine is a bunch of
activities
that i have found to make my day great
so the key activities i recommend for
you is
do at least one i do 30 push-ups every
morning when i wake up
secondly i journal and especially during
a tough time journaling will help you
process your feelings
and get organized three i try to learn
and improve myself so i read a book i
watch youtube maybe a video like this
or anything that i can do to improve
myself maybe it’s the camera work four
make your bed
yes you can control making your bed and
guess what it gives you a bit of a w
right early in the morning number five
have conversations with a great friend
or someone that you find interesting
when you start getting that brain going
you find support and you find a network
around you
if your friends are all unemployed
you’re probably gonna stay unemployed go
find people who are working and busy
they’ll actually inspire you to be at
that level too and lastly find community
of other people that are
working hard and being successful maybe
it’s in the okay dork.com
group maybe it’s on our youtube channel
maybe it’s in a slack group maybe it’s
in your church or synagogue
wherever it is put yourself in a place
where you’re around successful people
because that is within
your control so number seven free work
this is how i’ve hired some of my most
favorite people ever and these people
are making over six figures a year in
salary
mitchell who helps run this channel
jeremy who does a lot of our social
media and even michael who does the
video editing for the shows all came in
from free work and no i’m not saying go
do free work and never
get paid because the whole point of this
video is for you to get paid my
suggestion is is that if you approach
someone with free work and they get
excited about the free things you’re
doing
they’ll end up paying you for it so
here’s exactly how i’d recommend
approaching any of the kind of people
you’re wanting to work with
number one flatter them i’m not saying
do both stuff if it’s not sincere don’t
send it but tell these people
here’s how you’ve impacted me for the
people you want to be working with
number two
don’t ask them for anything it’s so
obvious when you’re just like i think
you’re the best
can you read this thing they know and
number three what do i mean by doing
free work
what i’m recommending to you is that if
you see me doing a lot of youtube take a
youtube video of mine and create things
that i can put on instagram
if you see a company out there go and
actually do a blog post for them and say
hey i wrote this blog post for you i
think you’d really like it and guess
what if it’s something that’s important
to them which you should try to pay
attention to what they’re doing
externally
they will be excited to actually start
paying you for more of that type of work
as you’re doing the free work there’s a
few things
one keep doing it what i recommend is 80
20 approach so 20
of time which is just your friday’s do
something free for other people so i
would allocate the majority of my time
eighty percent the majority of the week
monday through thursday
on doing things that directly i know
make money but that friday is your
long-term investments in relationships
and in yourself
in one helping and connect with other
people but two you’ll probably learn
some
skills that’ll benefit you for the
future let me know in the comments if
you’ve ever struggled what did you do
for yourself to start getting that
momentum and start getting success for
yourself out there
number eight start your tribe now now
appsumo is an eight-figure business and
that is because in 2000
yes about 20 years ago i started
blogging and i built up an audience of
people that trusted me and liked me and
i liked them too
and when i started appsumo in 2010 i
said hey go check this out and all these
people went and bought
so for yourself and your own journey i
think there’s a few crucial points i
really want to make about starting your
tribe now if you start a newsletter use
senfox.com it’s free
or youtube it’s free or start a blog
when you document your journey publicly
it creates a lot of really amazing
things in building your tribe
one it improves your communication
skills which is phenomenal no matter
what kind of thing you’re applying on or
working on in life communication is
really helpful
two it actually might build your network
of people that can help you get a job
three it’ll actually differentiate you
when you’re trying to apply for
different businesses
and four as i said before you can
actually turn those audience of tribe
someone in the future into customers my
one ask for you is as you start your
tribe which i recommend every single one
of you guys go out and do it
is commit to it for 52 weeks and if
you’re saying no i’m not sure what to
write i don’t care what you write
all i care is that you commit at least
once a week to sending your newsletter
or posting on youtube or posting on
instagram or posting anywhere
to at least do this practice because i
promise you once you have your tribe
and you have people that are supporting
you you won’t want to let them down i
know you may be discouraged but guess
what there’s a lot more things in your
control and you have a lot more ability
than you realize
follow the eight steps i’ve talked about
and get some success for yourself and
let us know how it goes if you like this
video and you want a little bit more
help in kicking ass
check out my 10 tips for ambitious
people or my maker morning which is how
i start my mornings to make sure i have
a great day every single day good luck
out there i love you and i’ll see you
out there