Mirza Yawar Baig – Sahil Blooms advice #02
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The host emphasizes the importance of expanding luck, working out, wake-up early, and connecting with Allah in order to win opportunities. They give advice on preparing for potential rejection opportunities, avoiding rejection and presenting opportunities. The speaker emphasizes the importance of showing one's seriousness and willingness to meet people, and showing willingness to meet and be early in meetings. They also advise the audience to show up early and stay late to increase chances of success.AI: Transcript ©
We continue with Sahil Bloom's
wonderful advice.
Point number 6,
he says be a yes person early in
your career.
Saying yes expands your luck surface area.
It may mean you are a bit overwhelmed
at times, but the benefits from the increased
luck
outweigh the downsides of feeling stretched.
Now I think it's
a lot more than just luck.
What happens when you say yes
is
that you get to learn new things.
You get to stretch your own imagination.
When you say yes, especially when you're not
sure how to how to do it,
you're putting yourself on a deadline to say
that I have to learn this new thing
by this time in order to be able
to deliver what I promised I would deliver.
And this is very, very helpful. I personally
done this all my life. I've never said
I've never said no to anything
as long as it's as long as it's
not, you know, illegal or something. But
nobody asked me to do anything illegal. But
I'm just saying that as long as it's
not something completely out of my,
area of expertise I mean, like, somebody asked
me to do brain surgery, I would say
no. But anything in my area of expertise,
which is in leadership development, which is in
education and so on, I never say no.
Even though
I may not know to begin with exactly
how I will accomplish that task, but I
take it as a challenge to say that,
okay. If I don't know, I don't know.
So,
the person who's asking me also know doesn't
know. So let me learn.
And I think that's what is really meant
here by expanding your luck surface area.
It's not just luck. It's not chance. It's
not just happens by itself. It is something
that you
make happen
because of your attitude.
Point number 7, he says wake up early
and work out.
When you wake up early and work out,
you do a hard thing to start your
day
that sets the tone.
You start to self identify as a winner.
That has ripple effects
all across your life. There's no such thing
as a loser who wakes up at 5
AM
and works out.
Now,
I want to add to this 2 or
3 things. First of all, wake up at
the Hajjut, not at 5 AM. Wake up
at the Hajjut,
which is
wake up about maybe 45 minutes to an
hour before
the time of salatul fajr starts.
Make du'a, connect with Allah
then
read Quran
ideally if you wake up an hour before
you have time to read about juz of
Quran
before you are ready for
then go to the masjid and play
and that's how your day begins. Now imagine
if you do that you'll roughly get in
about 2 hours of worship of Allah
2 hours of peaceful meditation, 2 hours of
reflection, introspection, connecting with Allah
reaping in the rewards of the tilawat of
the Quran, the reading of the Quran and
so on and this is a absolutely fabulous
way to begin the day and then of
course
work out and so on and so forth.
Another second point as I said I said
I got 2 odd things. 1 was this.
Second one
is when you wake up, make your bed.
This is a very important thing. It seems
like
like like like something that most people don't
do, but they should do.
This was standard in our
in in the
boarding school environment that I went to
make your bed.
Our beds would be
the dorms would be examined,
inspected by the house master.
And,
you know, if we if the bed was
not made properly, which means that absolutely
rigid sheet on top completely smooth,
then we had to do it again. So
it's very important to make sure that you
wake you wake when you wake up, make
your bed. Because, like somebody said, if you
have a bad day when you come back
home, at least you come back to a
beautiful room, which is a with a made
up bed, and that does wonders for your
which
might have taken a beating during the day
while you were out there working. So
make your bed.
Read
the. Read the. Go to the. And
then come back
and start your day. And then do your
workout and so on and so forth.
Point number 8, dive through cracked doors.
You know, people talk about
opportunity knocking and so on.
People who succeed
are not people who wait for opportunity to
come and knock.
People who succeed are people who open the
door before the opportunity comes to knock.
People who do who win are those who
go
are chasing after the opportunity, hunt it down,
bring it down, hold it down, and
and and,
you know, use that opportunity to open their
doors in their lives.
Sahid Bloom says, I recently had an experience
to bring this to life. A young boy
a young guy
saw on my story
that I was at a coffee shop working.
He messaged me asking if he could come
by and ask a question. I said, okay.
He got there an hour later, and we
hit it off. Turns out he lived far
away and made it work.
I'd always
bet on people with that kind of energy.
If someone cracks open a door that may
present an opportunity,
drive through it.
It's very important
to, in this context of cracking open doors
and meeting people, it's very important to take
that first step.
Many times we hesitate because we are afraid
of rejection.
If I ask you,
can I have a word with you? Can
I ask you a question? Can I talk
to you? Then I am I don't do
that because I'm afraid of what will happen
to me if you say, no. Sorry. I'm
not interested or I'm I'm busy or, you
know, I don't have time. What will happen?
You won't die. Nothing will happen. Right? Absolutely
nothing will happen. Your self esteem does not
depend on whether somebody has time for you
or not. So just do it.
Ask that question,
meet that person, and you will find that
on the average,
rejection
is not
even 1% of the time.
It's much less than that.
But don't go doing this all over the
place for all kinds of reasons. Do it
for the right reasons. Meet the right people.
And when you meet those people,
know
beforehand
what you want to ask them about.
Be prepared to take notes.
Show your seriousness for that meeting. It's not
a social meeting. Right? So don't meet the
person and say, okay. So how how was
your day? What are you doing? No. No.
No. No. Sorry.
I'm not here to tell you about my
day. You wanted to ask a question, ask
the question. So be clear in your mind
about the question. What is that question? Construct
that question in your mind. Talk that question
to yourself
in front of a mirror Talk it to
somebody who knows you Tell them look how
does it sound when I say this? Right
And then when you talk to the actual
person you want to ask this question to,
be clear about
and be be serious and show that you
are serious by
taking notes. That is very important. It shows
that you are serious. It shows that you
are interested in the development,
and then you would be surprised
perhaps at how much time people are willing
to invest
in your benefit, in your welfare.
Point number 9, show up early, stay late.
Showing up early and staying late is a
free way
to to materially increase your luck surface area.
The most interesting side conversations come up before
meetings
or after the end. When you are in
the room, you're more like more likely to
get pulled into a follow-up call, cough your
discussion. It pays off handsomely in the long
run.
This applies across the board, not only to
meetings, but everywhere.
Show up early. Stay late.
Show up be the first person on the
job. Be the one who opens the shop
and
be the one who locks the shop. Right?
Opening the shop and locking the shop are
ownership
behaviors.
If you do that, you will find that
you
are privy to good information.
You are,
you will have the
last say in whatever happens and you will
become trusted.
So show up early and stay late.
Finally, and by no means the least, do
the old fashioned things well. Look people in
the eye. Do what you say you will
do. I cannot possibly overemphasize this. This is
the root, and this is the heart of
reliability, and reliability is trust.
So look people in the eye. Look people
in the eye. Do what you say you
will do. Be early.
Practice good posture. Have a confident handshake.
It sounds silly, but these things are all
free and will never go out of style.
Amazing. This is such such wonderful advice.
All these things are free, and they will
never go out of style.
So I wish you all the very best.
And,
as as the man says, side room says,
none of this is difficult.
It's all easy.
All that remains is for you to do
it.
We ask
Allah to help us to do
that which is pleasing to him and to
save us from that which does not does
not please him.
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