 Eight personal rules you should follow for business success. Hey, if you're starting and growing a business or you've had a business for a while, I put together eight personal rules that I like to follow that I think could help you in business. In this video, I'll share with you what all eight are and tell you how to apply them so you can be successful too. Hey, if you haven't done so so far, don't forget to subscribe down there, hit that button, turn that red button to gray, and don't forget to ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every time I do a new video or I go live and I go live a lot so you may want to check one of those out too. Okay, so what are these rules and why are they so important? When you're growing a business, if you don't have a set of rules to fall back on, a set of things that you require in your business, it can be kind of detrimental. And if you do have these things, it can really help your business grow. So let's jump right into it and see what they are. Number one rule, and I think this is probably the most important of all rules, give before you take. Yeah, give before you take. This applies in not only business, but in your personal life and your relationships, everything, give before you take. Make sure you're providing value. Now, an example would be, let's say in my survival food company, I may offer a free download or a free course or something that helps people protect their family. And I will do that before I will offer them anything for sale because that way they can see that I'm giving value. I do that with friends and family. I try to help them out and do things for them. If you do these things when you are in need, you'll have somebody to fall back on. Now, that doesn't mean that if you do something for somebody that they directly owe you something, it doesn't work like that. What I'm saying to you is you want to help everybody that you possibly can as much as you can. And then when you need it, I think that you'll find it. I think it's a karma thing. Good things will come back to you if you do good things. So that's my number one rule. Number two, work with people who have a good moral conscience. This is so very important guys because their morals will spill over into your business. If you're working with people who are trying to get over on people or try to screw people over, it's going to fall into your business. It's going to affect your business. You don't want it happening. I know every time that we interview people for our company, there's certain questions that I ask and I give them certain moral dilemmas to see how they're going to answer it. And based on how they talk about those moral dilemmas, I can make a better decision if I want to work with these people or not. I think it's something everybody should do. I think you should get to know the people. You should find out, are they married or are they single? Do they have kids? All these different things about their life are very, very important. If I talk to somebody and they said, yeah, I have three kids, but I've never lived with them. They live out of state. I don't really see them. That tells me something about that person. If I see somebody who's been married four, five, six times, that may tell me something about that person, okay? So knowing what their moral basis is can really affect your business. Just work with people with good morals. Number three, surround yourself with the best. I think a lot of managers and business owners are afraid to hire somebody who may be smarter than them. Nothing could be further from the truth. You do want to hire people that are smarter than you. I worked in a job for many years and my boss didn't know a lot of things. He didn't know about computers. He didn't know about technology. He didn't have certain skills. The fact that I knew some of those things I think was intimidating to him. It scared him and he blocked me in a lot of different ways because he was afraid of that. But if you take somebody like Elon Musk, he's a really smart guy, but he hires people that are very, very smart. He started a rocket company because he hired people who were brilliant in that area. He started a car company because he knew a lot of technology people that were really smart and he surrounded himself with the best people in the world, which has done nothing but lift him up. So don't be afraid to hire somebody that knows more than you. It is a good advantage. Number four, remember, life is short. And what I mean by this is everything you do in business, everything you do in your personal life, you've got to think, you know, how would I be judged on down the road by these things? You know, what would people think about me for doing these things? And it also makes you want to accomplish more because, you know, when you are dead and gone, all you're really going to have is your accomplishments and how you treated people. So knowing this and understanding that life is short does change your trajectory. It makes you work maybe a little bit harder. It makes you try a little bit more than you would have normally. And that certainly can help your business. Number five, build on your strengths and hire on your weaknesses. I can't tell you how many times this has been important to me. I hire a lot of freelancers to do a lot of different things. And I know I'm good at certain things. You know, I can write scripts. I can write copy. I can, you know, come up with ideas to market things. But when it comes down to some technical stuff, that's not my forte. Okay, I don't do that. I'm not good at graphics. I know that. I may not be the best video editor in the world. I know that. So I hire people that are good at those things. I hire people to work on websites. I'm not good at that. I double down on my strengths and my weaknesses. I normally hire out. And I think if you apply that in your business, it goes a really long ways because if you aren't good at something, and this is what I've noticed, and you may be different, but I've noticed if I'm not good at something, more than likely, I don't like doing it either. It's like if you don't like doing something, you probably aren't good at it. If you aren't good at it, you probably because you don't like doing it. So if that's not something you want to do either, it kind of relieves you of that burden of having to work on things that you really don't want to do. Number six, finish what you start. I see this happens so much in online sales. I see people start so many things and they never completed. I see them start YouTube channels and they get, you know, 23 subscribers and they make six videos and they drop it because they didn't get the results they wanted. I understand that some of the things you're going to do online, they're going to take time and it's going to take a lot of effort. And this applies to everything you do. Maybe it's exercise. Maybe if you tell yourself, well, I'm going to do, you know, 100 pushups, don't stop at 60 or 70. You can take a break. But the point is, if you said you're going to do it, do it, complete what you said you're going to do. Now, does that mean that I finish every project on time, every time? No, it doesn't mean that. But it also means that I don't drop projects and never come back to them unless I find that it's not advantageous for my business, obviously I would then. But I've got one course I've been working on for quite some time, a digital course designer, which is a course on how to make courses. And it's taking me some time to work on it, but I will complete it. I'll complete it like I did all the other courses I did too. It's just going to take me a little bit of time. Don't quit because it seems difficult. Don't quit because you feel like you're not making as much progress as you want. Just don't quit. Just keep doing it and stick to it and finish what you start. Number seven, this is a tough one. Try to make time for everything. Now, what I mean by this is you've got personal tasks you've got to do. You've got business tasks you've got to do. You have fun things you want to do. Intertwining all those things can sometimes prove to be difficult. I was a single dad and raised two kids and I worked during the day on my business and sometimes one of those kids will call me or they'll text me or want to talk to me. And I generally will pretty much quit what I'm doing the other day. My son called me and I was exercising and I asked if I could call him back so that was okay. But for the most part I want to make time for them. I think that's super important. I want to make time for my wife. I want to make downtime. Sometimes we work a lot. We work day and night and then some evenings I'll just look at her and say, hey, maybe we ought to take this evening off and just relax and watch a show or something like that. It is important to make time for everything. It's not easy. That's why a lot of people say, well, I just don't have enough time. Everybody's got the same amount of time. Nobody has more or less time than you. We all have 24 hours a day. It's just the areas where we place importance. You know, if I worked on that course, I was telling you about a couple minutes ago and I worked on it every single day, day and night. I'd get it done a lot quicker, but I would have to give up doing some other things that I think I should do too. Spending some personal time with people, talking to my kids or whatever it may be. So I try to spread it out, do the best I can. And that's all you can do too. You'll never be perfect at this. Okay? You'll never be able to make your time perfect for everybody or give everybody enough time. But the important thing is that you do all of it and you make some time for all of it. Number eight, pay it forward at every opportunity. And here's what I mean by that. If I see somebody online who's asked me a question, I'm going to answer them as long as I can get to all the questions, obviously. If I see somebody in life who needs help, I'm going to help them out. It doesn't matter if it's opening a door or it is, you know, I went into a Chinese restaurant the other day and the guy in front of me was trying to pay with a credit card and he had ordered for a family of four and the card wasn't going through and he was going to have to leave his food. So I said, Hey, I'll pay for it for you. He looked at me like I was crazy. He says, No, this is like 40 some odd dollars. I said, I know, don't worry about it, you know, do it for somebody else. And that's the one thing I do tell people when I do something like that is I say, if I'm going to do this for you, do me a favor and just help somebody else out on down the road. And I think that actually happens. I think they actually do it. I'll never have, you know, I'll never know for sure. But I think if you pay it forward at every opportunity, I think it all comes around to you. Now that doesn't mean that you should go into a restaurant by everybody's dinner. That was a particular situation that happened to this guy. And if you think, Well, I never run into those situations as soon as you get in your head that you're going to help people out, you'll start coming across those situations, you'll start attracting those situations. And here's the cool thing about it that that $40 or whatever it was, is not as much as you're going to get back emotionally from doing stuff like that, how good you're going to feel from doing stuff like that. We used to go out and help the homeless a lot and feed the homeless and do all that. We felt so good when we came back, it was like, well, it was really cool that we could go out there and give these people food and do things for them. Find something that you're interested in. Find people out there that need some help and make sure you pay it forward. Okay, so I got a little bonus. I said there was going to be eight things or eight things, but I'm sitting here thinking of other things I want to share with you that I think would really help you out. The first thing is lead from the front. I had a gentleman contact me the other day that I'd worked with, gosh, probably 12 years ago, 13 years ago, and he was asking for a character reference because he had something on his record he was trying to get off. And as it turned out, when he was 19 years old, he was in the military and he punched his superior, which I think the guy deserved it. He said something to him that was racially unacceptable. And he punched him and he got this charge on his record and he was court marshaled and he was kicked out of the military. I came to know him as a grown man, you know, in his 40s. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met. And I was more than happy to help him, you know, expunge his record if we could do so because he was a really good person. I guess the bonus is if you could help somebody out like that, do it. No. And I think the moral of the story is that guy that said something really rude to him was his superior. And his superior was supposed to lead from the front. And he didn't lead from the front. What he did is he tried to belittle somebody who he managed. And I think that's one of the worst things you can do is belittle somebody you manage. You owe it to somebody that you manage to show them how hard you're going to work, to lead, to be out front, to do stuff for them so they can see an example and learn from you. Because remember, one day they may have that position. So I think it's really important to lead from the front. The last thing I'm going to lead you with, which I think is most paramount importance is do your best at everything. Do your best at everything. I hate when people say, well, that doesn't matter because of this. That does. I don't have to do that that well because of this. Everything you should do well. Every single thing, whether it's making dinner, whether it's taking care of your kids, whether it's painting your house, whatever it is, you want to do your best at every single thing. If you do that in business, you apply that in business. If you do the very best you can every single time, it will come back to you. I can promise you that. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you got a lot out of it. 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