The Tai Lopez Show

You can’t stop aging. And that’s a good thing. There are many important benefits that come from aging. Our brain develops, our muscles form, and our systems mature. But at some point during the aging process, it turns on us and our body begins to break down.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you struggle with laziness, learn more about laziness. In the age of information, where the answer to any question is a tap on the smartphone away, we no longer have the excuse, “Well, I just didn’t understand.” Gone are the days where the blind lead the blind. If you struggle with procrastination, learn more about procrastination to pinpoint where and why you struggle with it. In doing this, you will be able to change your behavior and come out on top.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Don’t talk in a scripted way. Humans can easily detect who is being a phony and who is not. This is something we must take into consideration when we’re in meetings, on sales calls, and presenting to clients. Above any piece of advice you’ve ever received, always remember that being yourself is the top priority.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All sales textbooks seem to say the same thing. Focus on the key benefits. Provide value. Don’t hesitate on the ask. The more we read these bulletpoints, the more we learn about ‘how to sell.’ But how do we integrate these tips into actually making deals?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As your business grows, more hands will enter the pot. People will want to work for you, clients will demand more from you, and investors will want to get in on the action. Knowing who to let in and who to let out is the key to ensuring that no cancerous cells enter your system. Because it only takes one to seriously set back the mission.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you build a website or use Facebook? To drive traffic to your website requires diverting people away from their comfort zones. But building a following within Facebook, the world’s most used social media platform, is tending to the user. And thus, its higher conversion rate can be turned into a more profitable revenue stream.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, it’s easy to be a ghost. Amazon will instantly ship whatever you need, Netflix will broadcast whatever you want to watch, and Facebook will provide the virtual social interaction you think suffices. Across the board, the mental and physical requirement to be aware and present is the lowest it’s ever been. The effect of this is that we have become disembodied ghosts floating through our day-to-day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A marketing agency is easy to start. But it is difficult to scale. As you gather clients, problems arise. How do you hire the right people? How do you create systems so you can train your new-hires to do the job the same way you were doing? Answering these questions while simultaneously running the business can send us running into the woods.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why wasn’t Wind River nominated for Best Movie? Because The Golden Globes are centralized. The moment a system becomes centralized, it becomes corrupt. As soon as elected officials meet in a boardroom or votes are tallied behind closed doors, whatever that system’s goal was, is now compromised. This is the reality of centralization, and if you look across our society, you see it in every sector.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In digital marketing, there are many different avenues to choose from. Email campaigns, social media, Google AdWords, the list goes on. How do you know which channel is the best for your product? And even if you do know which, how can you maximize the utility of the platform?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Productivity is a tricky thing to master. That's because the more time we spend learning about it, the less productive we feel. The productivity books we read and podcasts we listen to are, in a sense, a distraction from the work we know we need to do. But that is all just our mind playing tricks on us. You have to spend time sharpening your axe. And our axe is our mind, and our sharpener is knowledge.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Put on your blinders. 2018 is the year of focusing on what you want and getting it. If that was your attitude at the beginning of 2017, and you didn’t get it what you wanted, figure out why. Luckily, we live in the world of information and the answers to self-improvement are here. You cannot increase your output without decreasing something else.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes the path to self-improvement requires brutal force. And in a world where self-help books coddle your ego, achieving your desired results is difficult to manifest. Inviting criticism is a way to hack your motivation centers by giving others direct access to your ego. When you flaunt your weaknesses, the feedback you receive, if absorbed as pain but reoriented as fuel, can improve day-to-day performance.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The woodcutter who doesn’t sharpen his axe cuts down fewer trees. This is a lesson for all of us. In today’s world, where work is so unrelentingly emphasized, it’s hard to take time off the daily grind to sharpen our brains without feeling like you’re falling behind. But that’s the illusion. The woodcutter who doesn’t take time to sharpen his axe ends up being more unproductive in the long-run.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Studying history sheds light on our present-day. Our governmental systems don’t seem so flawed when we recognize that it’s been this way forever. Our dating habits no longer feel influenced by technology when we talk to an elder who made the same mistakes we did. Our life as a whole feels like a repeated beat, which brings relief to those of us who question our everyday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raising capital isn’t like Shark Tank. It involves a lot more meetings with a lot less glitz and glamour. Time after time, you stand in front of a boardroom, guiding a group of investors through your pitch deck and prototype. For those of us who’ve done this, we know the routine. For those of us who haven’t, we’re seeking advice on how to best approach raising capital.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learning from others has its time and place. But at some point, we must figure out the answers ourselves. If you’re always the one seeking advice and mentorship from others, you won’t ever develop the skills to find out what your personal north star is trying to tell you. Once you tap into your own calling and curiosity, the world opens up and you discover your skills by listening to yourself.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Real estate is the ultimate meritocracy.The agent who sees the most properties and talks to the most people is likely to be the one making the most money. Most of the industries we work in share this undeniable truth, but technology has redefined this up-and-close hustle to be more about SEO and social media marketingLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can learn something from every success story.The question is how much can be applied to your own life. The software engineer who developed a new browser might not be able to teach us how to market our coffee shop. But the story of how two nobodies moved to Los Angeles to now become the biggest real estate moguls in the world is filled with lessons of the blood, sweat, and tears we can apply to our own mindset.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we wrap up 2017, it’s time to look at this week’s highlights on The Tai Lopez Show. From dissecting crypto trends to understanding productivity, this week saw every dimension of The Tai Lopez Show. These moments deserve a second look, and today we’re taking the time to revisit the details discussed on air.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.