- One of the greatest challenges that you'll face in life is the necessity to reinvent
yourself from time to time. You see, in history even thinking back maybe your father, your mother, your grandfather or grandmother, most people back then they would have one career
for many, many years. They work for one company
for 10, 20, 30 years even until the day that they retire. But now with technology with
everything that's going on things are happening so fast. Things are changing at a pace that we've never seen in human history. So, what it means is
it could be an industry that you're working in that's not even just a
company you're working for but the industry could be
gone in a matter of years. The company that you're working for, they could be gone. Doesn't matter how big they are, doesn't matter they are like multi-billion dollar
company, Fortune 500 companies. Within days, sometimes
within weeks and year, suddenly they could just
go bankrupt and disappear. And it has nothing to do with you. Now remember in my career that I had to reinvent myself multiple times in my life and in my journey. People most of the time,
they resist change. Human being, we don't like to change. We are creatures of habits. We kind of like to be complacent and do the same thing again and again, and anything that requires change for human beings is
always difficult, right. Just like you're sitting in
a spa, you're comfortable. You're like, ah, you know what, I don't want to do, this is nice. Until you get a little uncomfortable then you kind of shift and
you wanna make some changes and you want to change. I remember when I was just getting started my first identity was, I was basically a wannabe entrepreneur. Not a real entrepreneur, a fucking wannabe entrepreneur. I thought I was an entrepreneur. But I was trying different things and I was starting all these businesses. None of them worked, I
was losing a lot of money. Then I reinvent myself to
be a copywriter, right. I developed that skill. I developed a high income skill as a young guy twenty-somewhat years old. And then I developed my next skill which is being a consultant for all the clients I was
writing sales copy for. And I was making very good money. As a young guy twenty-somewhat years old I was bringing in, you know, two, three hundred
thousand dollars a year. That's very, very good money. And most people would stay at that pace, stay in that same spot for
a long time, but I didn't. I knew that in order
to go to the next level I had to reinvent myself. And what does it mean to
even reinvent yourself? I'll tell you exactly what it means. It means that you have to let go of what, what has gotten you up to this point, and let go, and go to that next level. That is a difficult part. It's one thing to let go of
things that didn't work for you, but it's a whole other thing to let go of things that worked for you. So what got you here won't get you there. So I was making good money, and I had all these clients
and one day I made the decision I didn't want to do that anymore. I had to transition from
being just a copywriter or a marketing consultant to
being an internet entrepreneur. I needed to make a shift in my identity and I call all my clients one day, and I fire all my clients
overnight without knowing what the next step it's gonna look like. But I knew deep down, that I knew that's the right thing to do. How many of you ever had an opportunity, that it requires you to
take some form of action. To take that leap of faith, but deep down you know that it's scary as fuck, but
it's the right thing to do. And I did that. And I fired all my clients and I started, and pursued my full-time career
as an internet entrepreneur. As that was working I had to reinvent myself again as a speaker. Even before I didn't think I am a speaker. I'm a trainer, right. I'm a teacher, but because
my internet businesses were taking off a lot
of people were coming to me and asking, hey
Dan, how do you do this? How do you do this internet online thing? How do you make money online? How do you grow a business online? I was sharing them with, like, here's just what I do. And they thought, well, this is amazing. Can you teach us? And then from there it
grew from a few people to a dozen people then hundreds of people
coming to my workshops, come and do my training. And now suddenly, again,
I have a new identity. I had to reinvent myself. And, again, I reinvent myself
multiple times in my life and every single time
it's when I hit the peak. Kind of the peak of that career, I had to let go. And I had to reinvent, and that's the most difficult thing to do. And that's the most difficult
thing for you to do, and that's why most people cannot do it. To let go of what works. What is working for you, what got you to where you are today, and to reinvent yourself
to adapt a new identity, a new belief, develop new skillsets in order to go to that next level. What got you to six figure
won't get you to seven figure. What got you to seven figure
won't get you to eight figure. What got to eight figure
won't get you to nine figure. Can you let go of that? And remember, in life in order for you to go to that next level the old you sometimes must die so that the new you could be reborn.
