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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Fame or Shame: What Drives You? | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

A big part of being a coach is figuring out how people are wired and what motivates them. For some, it’s trying to re-create the success they’ve achieved previously. And for others... well, check out today’s Mindset Monday for that. And then look inside yourself and figure out the answer to this question: “What drives you?”

Transcript

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0:00.0

So much of what we do on this show is designed to like help like the fire, to get you fired up,

0:04.8

to get you motivated, to take a little more action today than you did the day before.

0:08.8

I was interviewing some buddies recently and one of them said to me the following,

0:12.5

I'm like, hey, what gets you going? He said, I've got a wall of shame in my office. And I was like,

0:18.1

we all know the wall of fame. Here's my successes. Here's all the things I've done. Here's

0:21.3

what I'm so proud of. He said, but what really gets me going is the wall of shame. And I'm like,

0:26.0

what is that? He's like, I literally list out all the ones that got away, all the ones where I

0:31.0

didn't make the phone call, all the ones where I didn't follow up, all the ones that I lost,

0:36.6

because there was something that I didn't do to provide enough value to that customer.

0:41.0

So they opted for someone else other than me. And I remember just asking about it. He was like,

0:46.4

it gets me so fired up to go deeper to make the extra phone call to do whatever it takes.

0:52.4

So if you're watching this right now, maybe just maybe you're more motivated by the fear of

0:57.5

loss, by the pain to get you in action, then you are by all the successes and all the fame and all

1:04.1

the things you've done in your life. You need to figure it out. What makes you tick? What drives you?

1:09.1

We're all human beings doing our thing on this planet. But at the end of the day, if you can figure

1:13.1

out what drives you, you can take that and you can run with it and you can kind of create the

1:18.2

greatness that you're on this planet for.

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