��Hey guys, 2017 is coming to an end, 2018, right around the corner. So, this video
is my new year s present for you.
I am confident, it s going to be a life changing experience.
So, we are going to do something very interesting today. We are going to drive to desert, and
collect trash.
But, while doing so, we are going to talk.
It s not going to be one of those days when I talk about cognitive dissonance or project
management tools, we are just going to talk like friends, about life, about your career..
We are also going to talk about me. Looking at the comments , I realized there are so
many of you interested in my story. How I achieved success in my management consulting
career, how I got promoted multiple times, and why I decided to leave PwC Consulting
after 5 years and decided focus on my LIG program.
And I understand, for some of you, it s inspiring and all, seeing success stories.
But I believe you deserve to know the whole story and not only the bright side.
So, today, I am going to be vulnerable, I am going to share with you my failures. And
you ll realize that if I could make it from such humble beginnings, and trust me, you
ll find out within a few minutes that I come from really, really humble beginnings, that
you can achieve the same success. I am sorry not the same success, a lot bigger success
and a lot easier.
I ll also share with you what steps I took to come out of those failures.
So, hopefully, there ll be many lessons learned for you there.
Let s go to the desert
I
want to talk about 4 stories from my life. These are the stories that shaped my character.
The first story is right out of college. Year 2005, I was 23 years old and just about to
graduate from one of the crappiest colleges in the world. at that time, somehow, life
smiled at me, I acquired this incredible opportunity to intern at HSBC Headquarters in London.
And it was an internship that had a possibility to turn into a full time position.
Now, that was a huge deal for me! I mean, imagine, my classmates at college can t even
speak a word of English, and yet I am going to London to have an internship at HSBC.
Now, opportunities like that, don t come every day.
Anyway, after 4 months of interviewing and numerous analytical tests, I got the job.
I got the contract. What an incredible feeling that was.
I am going to intern for HSBC. I was the happiest person ever. The moment I got the contract,
I literally opened my phone book, and started calling all my friends and family. Every single
person I knew. I just shared my happiness with the world. It was an incredible feeling.
You know, I was just happy. Really really happy&
Then I started doing the paperwork.
And, the unthinkable happened. HSBC stopped answering my emails. That was weird.
Then, after a week of complete silence, I got the shock of my life. They told me they
ran out of their quota for work visas so they are withdrawing the offer. That was the last
thing I heard from them.
After that, no response, no call, nothing. That was it.
And that was the beginning of the end for the first chapter of my life.
My life was ruined. Absolutely ruined.
I became a total mess.
Mind you, I was still 23. My character wasn t built yet.. So, I couldn t handle such a
failure, especially after announcing it to everyone. I mean even my grandmother, she
was still knitting a beanie for me. She didn t want me to catch a cold& She heard London
was cold. How do I go back and tell her that I am not going anymore.
I became a total mess. I was angry all the time, I was depressed, I lost my will. So,
Bad situation became worse and I got kicked out of my home. I became homeless. Yeap.
Nobody wanted to deal with this angry, depressed person.
Anyway, in that homeless life of 4 months, I learned 2 very important things.
The first one is; fear.
Being scared for your life. I was 23. I was scared for my life every single night.
wherever I pitched my tent, I got kicked out. Everybody called the police on me. All the
nearby residents, living in their fancy houses in Izmir, my hometown. And I don t come from
a poor family. the neighborhoods I know and lived in were relatively rich areas. But I
was no longer welcome in the neighborhood.
So I had to stay in the other end the dangerous area of the city along with the other homeless.
There d be fights every night, drug users, and even murders. It was that dangerous. And
imagine me, college boy, sleeping in his camping gear, it was obvious I didn t belong there.
That was about the time, I started appreciating& . sun rise.
Because sunrise meant safety.
But that sunrise, my friends, just wouldn t come up& It just wouldn t.
So, that was the first lesson learned in this story. Fear. Fearing for your life for months.
And The second thing I learned was a concept called The Lethargy Cycle.
It s when your negative thoughts lead to lack of action, and lack of action contributes
to negative thoughts. It s a negative feedback loop. Your situation just gets worse and worse
until you just no longer have a reason to live. When you fall so bad, like how I did
in 2005, it s just so difficult to get back up. So difficult. That s why I can so easily
relate with people who are low on confidence. Low on energy. . Low on motivation.
Once, you fall, you don t get back up so easily. You become lethargic and lose energy to do
anything.
And the reason is very simple. In life, you draw energy from so many sources you don t
even realize. You get energy from your parents, because you want to make them proud,
you get energy from your friends, because you want to be the best guy to hang out with,
you get energy from your kids, because you want to provide an amazing life for them.
But when you lose these energy sources one by one, you become lethargic. You re left
with only one driving force or energy source - your own will. And it just doesn t turn
on instantly. I remember months of just sitting all day long doing nothing.
Until, somehow that driving force, my own will, turned on. That s when I broke the fall.
after 4 months of doing nothing, just waiting for sunrise, and sleeping in the daylight,
and sometimes asking for leftover food from restaurants, I finally got back up again.
Ever since that day, my inner force never turned off and I still tap into it every day,
I found the strength, and started applying for jobs, very strategically though, in fact
some of the things I figured out that time became the seeds of LIG 15 years later.
And then, a total miracle happened.
I received a job offer from another leading employer; Standard & Poor s. S&P. It truly
was a miracle for me. I needed it so bad. Now, I am not a religious person but it was
almost like the touch of god. At least, that s how it felt at that moment. From homelessness,
to Standard & Poor s. The jump was just beyond belief. It s just unfathomable.
Let s move on to the second story.
But before that, let s do some cleaning
Now, the second story;
A year later, things were going great at Standard & Poor s I had a great salary, I built great
friendships, I was doing a great job.
And then bam I got fired out of nowhere.
What happened was, a new manager came in, he was a total womanizer, and this evil bitch
at the firm played him so well that I got fired within a week of his arrival. One week.
That lady not only managed to get me fired, but also she got a promotion in 1 week. Incredible,
stuff&
That s when I learned another very important lesson; you don t always control your own
fate. You may have that inner force activated, but other people still poke in your future.
They put their dirty little fingers in your plans.
Third story;
After getting fired, I moved to Dubai in the end of 2008. It didn t take me long before
getting a new job because of Standard & Poor s great brand name in the financial services
industry.
And as most of you remember, this was the time the world was entering into a recession
and stock markets were in free fall.
But not in Dubai. Not at first.
I managed to get a few job offers one from JP Morgan and one from Goldman Sachs. Amazing,
right?
But their offers were not very high.
Instead of choosing one of those offers and building a future there, I was stupid enough
to pick a no name employer.
I did a pretty stupid thing, but they paid me almost triple of what the other offered.
And that s when I had a pretty lavish lifestyle. Sports cars, parties all day long. I was thinking
I deserved to have some fun after struggling so hard.
Then bam, recession hits Dubai in 2009. The company decided to lay-off employees instead
of fighting the recession so I lost my job in 2010. Off goes my job together with my
lavish lifestyle. I then thought about Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. They were interested
in me just a couple of years ago, they would still consider me easily, right?
I was wrong. In their eyes, I was no longer the Standard & Poor s guy. I was just a local
company guy. I lost my edge.
Then another important lessons learned; building a career is a long term plan. You don t optimize
for right now, but you optimize for 10 years in the future. Otherwise, you hit your 40s
and you ll be working for managers who are in their 20s but coming from big name employers.
It is harsh, but it s reality.
Final story, I then decided to make a complete shift in my mindset, I enrolled in my MBA
at a great business school, then ventured into management consulting, and eventually
after having worked at 2 boutique consulting firms, and with the help of certain strategies
that I teach in LIG, I made it back up in the champions league. I joined PwC, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Consulting and worked there very successfully for 4 years and now I have my own business,
and helping you avoid the mistakes I did and achieve great success through my LIG program.
OK. This was my story. But enough about me, let s now talk about you.
Now, all my subscribers, you, you are smart, you are talented. You are aware that there
are great opportunities in life. And you want the good life. Otherwise, you wouldn t be
watching me. You d be watching funny cat videos. That s not you.
And you most likely fit in one of the 2 categories.
The first category is already on the right track. They got on the right track either
through my LIG program or they had a good mentor and they received good advice. They
are already working for greatest employers and by watching my videos, they are trying
to do get promotions or excel in their careers.
And if you fit in this category, I don t want to waste your time. You may just close this
video now. Because, the remainder of the video, I will be talking to my friends that belong
to the 2nd category.
The second category is, while equally smart and intellectual; but lack the determination
or motivation to make that change.
And some of you are in that Lethargy Cycle I talked about earlier.
Remember? negative thoughts lead to lack of action, and lack of action contributes to
negative thoughts.
Your situation gets worse and worse until which point you can no longer escape. It s
like a black hole.
If you work for no brand name employers, horrible working environment, full of bullies, and
asshole managers, or none of the above but you work for peanuts of a salary in your 30s
or above, you are not building your wealth, then I am sorry to tell you but you are in
that Lethargy Cycle.
You know you can do better in your career, you know you deserve better, but then you
don t do anything about it. Or worse, you waste your time with online job applications.
You are not developing strategies to find better employment.
Now, why do we make a change? Why do we act. It s fairly simple.
There is either an Opportunity.
Or a threat.
So, you either want to grab an opportunity or eliminate a threat. Or sometimes both.
Let s start with opportunities.
Obviously the first reason why you should make that jump is to fulfill your potential.
You deserve more, and you should get more. It s a fairly simple statement.
You are smart, you are intellectual, you are skilled, you have the potential to be the
greatest, and you deserve to have a career in greatest companies in the world. Those
companies will value your experience, and your character.
They will invest in you, they will care for you.
And yes, these employers exist. You only realize how great they are, when you join them.
In great companies, like PwC, McKinsey, Google, BCG, P&G, there are usually no bullies, you
are surrounded by these incredible human beings who will push you to greater heights and most
often they happen to be really good people.
They are awesome to hang out with. It s just a happy and immensely fulfilling environment.
Second reason, money. So, when you join these firms, usually, your salary increases dramatically
after a certain threshold. You don t earn a lot of money when you are junior, but once
you start going up to ranks, your salary goes up to incredible levels. If you are in management
consulting, you are in your late 30s or early 40s, a first year partner, you are looking
at around 300,000 dollars yearly bonus. After a few years, you eventually move up to million
dollars per year. it won t happen immediately, but at least you are on the right track.
I know you heard this a million times that money doesn t bring happiness.
I couldn t disagree more.
There are two kinds of people who say this. One those who don t have money and try to
justify themselves that they have a good life by hating on money. And two people who have
a lot of money, grew up in money, and don t know what s it like not to have it.
Money is what buys resources. You want to invest in a stock portfolio, you want to collect
dividends, you want to collect rent checks from your tenants, what are you going to buy
all these assets with? Money also gives you insurance in life. When you fall, you have
money to break that fall. If you don t have money, you fall so deep that you can t get
back up.
If I had money, would I ever become homeless? Lose the resources, lose 4 months of my life
doing nothing but staying in my tent, and begging for food from shop owners in exchange
for me cleaning up their dishes or mopping the floors 15 years ago. So, let them fool
themselves, But you are smarter than that.
it would take me hours to talk about all the opportunities. Better training, better people
to work with, more status, more power, it s just a very long list. Now let s talk about
the threats.
Each day you waste your time with your no name, small employer who is never going to
be able to pay you a big bonus, or make you a partner in the firm, you are reducing your
chances to jump to the champions league.
Not only it looks bad on your resume that you worked for that no name employer for so
long, but also you slowly become them.
Let me explain.
You are the average of the 5 people you spend most of your time with. Given that you spend
over 8 hours at work, your colleagues have the biggest influence on who you are and who
you become. If you surround yourself with losers, you ll become a loser. If others
around you have less to contribute to you, then you ll lift them up a little bit and
they ll take you down a bit. Enough time past, you ll become identical to each other in terms
of skills and experiences.
Another risk, small companies don t tend survive for a long time. Average life span of a company
with less than 50 employees is only 10 years. If it s a start-up, then it s less than 3
years. If economy turns upside down, can your employer really survive? Do you have a leader
smart enough, experience enough to take necessary steps, and develop strategies to prevent a
bankruptcy, or a layoff, and keep going? Ask yourself these questions now, before that
day comes. Because, trust me, small firms usually don t have the cash reserves to soldier
through recessions.
Let me show you another threat;
What if the speed of Artificial Intelligence development
and automation continues to be exponential.
Mind you, I am not saying becomes exponential, but I am saying stays exponential.
Because their growth is exponential at the moment, not linear. That s the law of accelerating
returns. So if it continues this way, according to Ray Kurzweil within 12 years AI is going
to reach human level intelligence. But it s not going to stay there. As a result, within
as little as 15 to 20 years, 70% of the jobs available will be automated. And I am not
just talking about blue collar jobs but all jobs including white collar jobs. Complete
shift in the economy. Nobody knows what is going to happen next. Complete shift in society.
There is nothing we can do that Artificial Intelligence in 20 years cannot do. You think
there will be jobs left by then?
Are you banking your future on governments implementing Universal Basic Income? What
if they don t? What if you are a citizen of a poor government? You ll forever be unemployable
for the rest of your life, so will be your kids. Now, we may invent new jobs, new type
of jobs that we can t even imagine at the moment. It s a possibility. But we don t know.
It s a singularity event. You can t predict what will happen.
Get ahead of the curve. Take control of your career and your wealth before that day comes.
So, you eventually become asset owners. You still have so many amazing employment opportunities.
There are amazing jobs out there. Grab them before it s too late.
Let me share with you what s happening to majority of people with great potential, great
intellectual capabilities but haven t yet achieved it .
Maybe you tried to have a better job, a better career, and maybe you did the worst thing
possible and made online applications. And of course as a result, you failed.
Failing is uncomfortable. Although it s part of life, it s uncomfortable. Nobody likes
to fail.
So, as a result of the failure, you developed superficial reasons for that failure. Self
justification. It s cognitive dissonance.
And you built a wall with those made up reasons. You convinced yourself that, oh the good life
is not happening for me because I am not from a fancy college, or that I don t have an MBA,
or that I am Chinese, I am Indian, I am Brazilian, I am too old, I am too young, I can t speak
good English, you sold yourself all these excuses as the real reason.
Now, this created a bigger problem.
Do you know what the bigger problem is?
That wall, is still up there.
You commanded your subconscious to stop looking for opportunities. And it took your instructions
and blocked the will to look for or grab those opportunities.
Look at here; this is where you are, this is the wall, and this is the land of opportunity.
Opportunities are like mountains. You can see them across the wall but you cannot grab
them.
Now, I want you to reminisce a little bit. Think of all the opportunities in your life
that you missed out on. All the times you wasted right before a very important job interview,
or meeting with a potential hiring manager All the times you didn t give your 100%. You
need to destroy this wall, right now. Today. Whatever excuses you have for not pushing
for a better life, better career, destroy them all tonight. Don t carry them over to
2018.Leave them in 2017.
You have the potential to do great things.
Go find a mentor. Someone who can show you the right path. Someone who will push you
to your limits and help you achieve your maximum potential.
If you don t have a mentor, then let me help you. Join LIG. Over 1,400 people completely
transformed their careers only because of the strategies they learned in the program.
Be the next one. I ve laid out the entire blueprint for you.
You will be successful. As long as you are committed to taking action, it will work for
you. Plus, I discounted the program over 95% so it s affordable to everyone, from anywhere
around the world.
Look, your MBA, PMP, your college degree, even your decades of work experience are worthless
if they don t give you one key ingredient.
Attention. Attention of the hiring managers. That fancy MBA is not even worth a dime if
you can t get the attention of the hiring managers. I have an MBA from a top 20 business
school, it didn t open any doors. Now, it definitely helped a little after I somehow
opened the door but only after. Still, what I teach in LIG opened the door.
I mean there is a reason why over 20% LIG members are graduates of Ivy League schools.
Even they don t get the attention they thought they would by getting a degree from Stanford
or Harvard. Not anymore. Things changed now. Oh in addition, all LIG members get direct
support from me. You go through LIG modules, put in the work, and if you can t get the
success you need in your life, then get in touch with me in 30 days, then we ll jump
on a call. We ll figure out how you can do better, and what sort of strategies we can
develop for Your situation.
If you are in your 30s or above, and if you don t have the career or the wealth you deserve
yet, you need to come to an acknowledgment right now.
Right now!
Look, It s fine if you failed. You heard my story, how many times I failed. It s fine.
Life happens. But if you don t realize that you have failed. You will never find the motivation
to do something about it. Instead, you will always accuse someone. I blamed HSBC, I blamed
my family, I blamed that womanizer manager who fired me from S&P, I blamed everyone until
I realized that it was all me. I was responsible for my own life. I had to show ownership.
I suggest you do the same.
And if you can come to that realization right now,
Something amazing will happen.
You will get your power back. You will start looking for solutions. And when you get the
solutions, you will have control. You control where you live, how you live, where to go.
It s an amazing feeling.
You will get the good life. Because you will realize that when you take action and you
take calculated risks, world becomes a lot more fair than you were lead to believe.
But it all starts with baby steps&
Happy new year!
I wish you a wonderful 2018.
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