258: Jesse Itzler - Creating Your LIFE Resume (Living With The Monks)

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Ryan Hawk

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🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

258: Jesse Itzler - Creating Your LIFE Resume (Living With The Monks)

Jesse Itzler is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Living with a Seal, cofounded Marquis Jet, the world's largest private jet card company which he and his partner sold to Berkshire Hathaway/NetJets. Jesse then partnered with Zico coconut water, which he and his partner sold to The Coca-Cola Company. His latest book is titled, Living With The Monks. He's a former rapper on MTV and wrote and performed the NBA's Emmy Award-winning "I Love This Game" music campaign and the popular New York Knicks anthem "Go NY Go." When he's not running ultra-marathons, eating vegan food or being a dad to his four kids, Jesse can be found at the NBA's Atlanta Hawks games, where he's an owner of the team. He is married to Spanx founder Sara Blakely.

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"I invest in people... You must look into their eyes before making a decision."

Show Notes:

Sustaining excellence:
- Spending time around the 4,000 people who used Marquis Jet, "I always asked them about their habits."
- You have to create the system that works best for YOU:
  - Attack fear, take risks
  - Get up early in the morning
  - Create daily wins, momentum
  - Be a great connector, build relationships
  - Run -- Create great exercise habits
  - Winning habits, routines, mindset. A system for self
For 27 years, Jesse has only eaten fruit before noon
Relying on gut instinct... How to build this, make better? Must spend time alone, to think. Running is where this happens for Jesse (in the car for Sara)
Why?
- Awareness with time... Understand your own mortality
- A constant drive to build a "life resume"
- You only get 1 shot to do this thing
Hiking Mount Washington -- Helps you feel "super alive... It's addicting."
Have you always been this way? "I get bored easily. This has nothing to do with money."
Always being urgent to accomplish something
Always carving out time for yourself. Carve at least 1 hour per day.
Put parameters around your time
YOU are the business plan. "I invest in people... Have you ever looked into his eyes?"
"At the end of the day, people drive companies."
Why live with the monks?
- "I did the physical part while living with a SEAL. I needed to focus on the spiritual part."
  - Lived in a monastery with 8 monks... 4 had been there for 50 years
How living with the monks helped him handle "decision fatigue"
- How it free'd up so much energy
"The power of cumulative work"
"Always do something hard"
- It sets the tone for yourself
Don't back away from challenges -- Build the grit muscle
- Do small things every day (clean, make the bed, finish tasks, do the dishes now)
"I'm turning 50. I only have 28 summers left if I'm lucky."
The perfect day =
- Family time
- Wellness time (running)
- Business time
"Get your heart rate up!"

Social Media:

Read: Living With The Monks
Follow Jesse on Twitter: @the100MileMan
Connect with me on LinkedIn
Join our Facebook Group: The Learning Leader Community
To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12

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0:00.0	But the end of the day people drive companies and this guy had vision, he had passion, he had drive, he had an unwavering look in his eye that regardless of the obstacles I'm going to get a
0:17.5	return on your money and I was like man why are him the money and how could you evaluate it without even
0:24.0	talking or looking at the guy?
0:29.0	Welcome to the Learning Leader Show, I am Ryan Hawk.
0:33.3	Thanks so much for being here.
0:34.5	It is Mindful Monday.
0:36.3	Text learners to 442-22
0:39.4	in order to join thousands of other fellow learning leaders
0:42.0	from all over the world.
0:43.4	Text learners to 442-22.
0:46.1	Now, on tonight's featured leader with one of the most interesting people in the world.
0:50.9	It's New York Times, theselling author Jesse Itzler. He co-founded Marquis Jet, which he and his partner
0:58.4	sold to Warren Buffett. He wrote Living With A Seal, which is a New York Times bestseller.
1:03.0	His latest book is titled Living With The Monks.
1:05.7	He's also a former rapper on MTV.
1:08.3	He's won an Emmy.
1:09.7	He's an owner of the Atlanta Hawks, and he's married to Spanks founder Sarah Blakely, the youngest self-made female billionaire of all time.
1:18.0	Pretty cool. A few of the topics we got into. How he makes investment decisions and why you are the business plan not
1:27.4	the PowerPoint deck then why he strongly believes in building a life resume
1:32.4	instead of a traditional one and then leaves and I found to be compelling. I think you'll love it. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Jesse, It's Lurt.
1:45.0	Jesse, man, it's great to have you back on the Learning Leader Show. Welcome man.
1:53.0	Thanks for having me Ryan, I appreciate it man.
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