 Welcome back to the channel, everybody. For those of you who are new around here, my name is Michael, aka Dr. Cellini, and I'm an interventional radiologist in New Jersey recently from New York City. So on today's video, you probably know by the title, which is why you clicked on this video, I want to talk about what motivates me and how I stay motivated. So many people ask me on a daily basis how I am a full-time interventional radiologist, physician working in the hospital, taking call, how I also cranked out two videos or more every single week for three years now, how I have time to go to the gym still, how I travel like I do, and how I'm a husband. I have a lot going on, but, like, honestly, it doesn't really feel like that much is going on. I don't have a lot of free time, but what would I do with all this free time? Watch TV? That's boring. So let's go ahead and get into it, and I'll tell you everything you need to know about how I stay motivated, and maybe it'll help you as well. Let's go. So how do I stay motivated? Well, the truth is, I just love money. I'm a greedy, greedy, greedy doctor who just loves money. I was trying to be straight out. Obviously, that's not the case. That's not even remotely why I do what I do. I'm not motivated by money, but so many people on the internet seem to think otherwise, like, oh, if you're a doctor and you're on YouTube, you're probably just money hungry, blah, blah, blah, you're probably a terrible doctor. Whatever. Don't listen to those people. That's not why we do what we do. I don't know why anybody would be a physician for money, because you have to basically go through 14 years of hell to even get to where I am now, and then once you're here, you have to pay off student loans. So this is not a get-rich-quick scheme. I can assure you that. Speaking from experience. So some of you may not really know kind of my background or where I come from, because I think a lot of people see me on this platform and see that I'm a physician and automatically assume that I come from some wealthy family and I just kind of pranced into this being a physician role and all this stuff. But that couldn't be further from the truth. So I give you a little background about my life. So I actually grew up in a small town in Georgia. I come from very humble beginnings. My mother was a stay-at-home mom for most of my life. She went back to school when I was in my teen years and became a teacher. She teaches eighth grade science and math, I believe now still. Mom, sorry if I got that wrong. My father was a salesman. He was a chef and he had multiple restaurants as well growing up. Honestly, we didn't really have that much. We had clothes. We were always fed, but other than that, we didn't really have much extra. So for us, we had a family of five. We never really went on vacation. If we did go on vacation, it would be to like Florida or something, which is great. I'm not knocking that. That's all we could afford at the time. But I knew kind of later in my life after seeing some of my other friends whose parents were like super successful, I just wanted to be able to be like them. I think my brothers kind of feel the same way and that maybe why we're all three are doctors. I don't know, but we just have a different work ethic than some. I guess because we didn't really come from anything and in order to get to that next level of success, however you define success, you need to work a little extra harder because nothing's going to be handed to you. I think I've always kind of been working hard my entire life. I mean, even in high school, I was working starting probably like 15. I was lifeguarding. And then once I turned 18, we were allowed to bartend. I bartended and also coached swimming before I started college. And then I got a college scholarship for swimming at the University of Georgia. But even then I still had to work pay for my life because my parents weren't giving any money. They couldn't afford it. So I was a full-time NCAA Division I swimmer on scholarship. I think they paid for like 80% of my school tuition and everything and I had to cover the rest of the 20%, but that didn't include housing. So I had to basically pay my rent every month and my parents didn't give me any money. So I had no choice, but I had to get a job even while going to school, even while being an NCAA Division I athlete occupying all my time. What little time I had left, I used to work as a bartender because what better time to work than from the hours of 9pm to 4am. Those are the only hours left in my day. And I could work, you know, two or three times a week and cover enough for my rent. I would make like $200 a night and you guys are going to laugh. But back in the early 2000s, my rent at the University of Georgia, I think was like $385. So two shifts I could cover my rent and that was it. Was I tired all the time? 100%. Did it affect my performance? Probably, but I had no choice and you just kind of do whatever you have to do. I think what I'm trying to get at is I'm just kind of like used to working hard and not just being lazy. So ultimately there's one motivating factor that keeps me going all the time and that one thing that motivates me every single day is results. Because once you see results, you want to keep striving to reach higher and higher. You just keep going. It like fuels you. It fuels you. I don't know what it is. It just gives you some energy to just work harder and do better and be better and become more successful. Again, whatever success is defined by you. But I will say the hardest thing to do is wait and be patient until you get results. So I kind of break everything I said at the beginning of this video and say how I'm motivated in each of those sections. So for instance, the gym, this is like the hardest part, right? Staying on a consistent workout schedule, eating healthy, all that stuff. It's like the hardest thing ever. But again, it all comes down to results. I've always worked out my entire life. Like I said, I was an athlete and I've always stayed fit, always working out a couple of times a week as much as I can throughout my entire life. And the past year during the pandemic, that kind of slowed down. And that was the first time in my life where I wasn't working out on a very regimented, consistent basis. And like almost everybody during the pandemic, I gained a few LBs. You know what I mean? So I probably gained like 5 or 10 pounds. I wasn't happy about it. And I couldn't really do anything because I couldn't go to my gym. And like you saw in my previous video, 4.30 a.m. routine here, I like to get in and just hammer out a workout and sweat. If I don't sweat, I don't feel like I accomplish anything. And I like specific workouts. So without being able to do that for the pandemic times, it really put a wrench in my plans. What's that? I really wish Toba Chico would sponsor me. It would save me a lot of money. Anyways, so for me, this is very recent thing now. You know, I was eating poorly, wasn't working out during the whole pandemic. And then all of a sudden I came to New Jersey and I was like, all right, let's turn over a new leaf here. It's time to really get the pump back on, you know? So join that gym and have been crushing it. Absolutely love it. I feel so much better. And I've actually gotten a lot slimmer in the last month or so. Once you see results, you just want to push it harder and harder and harder. And that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm results driven and most people are. It's like human nature. So let's talk about being a physician. What motivates me in being a physician? Well, I finished all my training, which is good. And now here I am. I should be like on this uphill ride and now I've made it. And you should just plateau out, right? Wrong. Because again, I'm motivated by results. So you're like, what kind of results do you see in medicine? Well, funny you should ask. I have trained and I've learned a specific set of skills that allows me to help people and save their lives a lot of the time. So when I see my skills that I've acquired over my time of training that I spent all these years doing and apply them to a patient who does extremely well with one of my procedures or the skills I've learned, that is all the motivation in the world. Being a physician is a very thankless job a lot of the times, but it only takes that one person to thank you to like keep you going for like two years. So I probably do, I don't know, out of like hundreds of procedures. Nobody really says thank you. But there's always that one person who you do like the simplest thing for and they love you, they thank you, they hug you and they're the happiest people in the world and that's what kind of keeps you going. Again, humans are results driven. So when you see results, you just want to push harder and do better. So when I help a patient out and they're very thankful for it, I just want to do better. I want to do it for more people. It's like a high. It is a high. You feel like a sense of euphoria because you don't really get thanked by a lot of patients but when they do, it means the world. Trust me. I'll give you an example. I was doing a floor procedure on a patient the other day and they have had concerns for this issue. I can't really talk about it because of HIPAA but they've had this concern for this issue for like a year now and I think they said they went to 10 different doctors and they all said they were crazy but then I diagnosed them with exactly what they thought they had and they were the most thankful people for me showing them that they're not crazy. They're like, oh my God, I'm not crazy. They're like, can I give you a hug please? I'm like sure. That kind of motivates you and keeps you going. That's just part of it. Those who are in medicine know exactly what I'm talking about. So what about YouTube life? What motivates me in YouTube? I don't know. I think it's kind of like a creative outlet. I started out trying to just see if I could do it and slowly, slowly. I mean we're talking over like a year's time here. I finally built up an audience and people started watching it and people liked my content so I kept creating more and then you get a taste of results, you get the ad revenue and then you get people loving your content and you see both of them rising and you don't want to let yourself down A because you're doing well on your platform and doing well financially and all that stuff but also a lot of people enjoy your content so you don't just want to stop it immediately. You want to like keep it going and the more you keep it going the more results you see and I don't know, it's fun. But YouTube for me has always been a creative outlet. It's never been like work. It's not work for me to sit down here and give my advice and tell people about the side of medicine that they normally don't see. It's fun for me. It's cathartic. It's cool. I get to be creative and do my own videos in my own way and it's just something outside of my normal job and it makes you more independent because you're not relying on one thing. You now have two options. So I always say never have just one job or always have two jobs. So in case something happens you still have the other to fall back on. I love YouTube. I love it all. You all seem to like it too so I'll stop blabbering and get on to the next thing. So financially what motivates me is when you start doing well in your career you have other income that you can actually expand and invest into other assets and then different financial avenues and what motivates me is results. So if you invest in an ETF or a stock and you see it doing well you just want to save up more money and put in that stock again so it does better. You're motivated by results. Obviously if you're making more money you are more motivated to make more money if that makes sense. I always used to ask myself when I was younger I was like why does Bill Gates why does Warren Buffett why does Elon Musk why do they continue to work when they are 100 billionaires? Like why? What is the point of that? But then I realized this is pretty recently actually because you get a little taste of a little success and you're like oh I see exactly why they keep working because they're motivated by results and they just want to see how far they can take it. They don't want to relax. It's you for it to do well and then do even better. You just have to keep going and for that reason they don't want to stop because it's like a game to them. I hope you understand what I'm talking about but the summary of this video is that everybody is results driven and everybody just wants to do well and when you see results happen you want to do even better. You just keep chasing you keep working hard and you keep going. That's what I do. Maybe some of you all do it as well. Comment below how you stay motivated and what motivates you. Hopefully you guys like this video I wasn't rambling too much. This is what motivates me. Results. Results in every avenue in my life keeps me going. So on that note make sure you smash the like subscribe button follow me on Instagram and TikTok if you don't already and I'll see you all on the next video. Cheers.