Interview with Yanik Silver - Lessons in Entrepreneurship, Focus and Mentors
www.eventualmillionaire.com A $400,000 Slap to the Head with Yanik Silver, Serial entrepreneur, author and one of the really good guys of internet marketing. We break down Yanik's success and pivotal moments. Why he said he's never given any project 1000% but now Is changing things. His ah-ha moment on why he wants to create a "headpin". We also talk about his $400,000 failure, and new trends he is seeing in the future. Yanik talks candidly about grappling with focus, his failures, and how he learned to "As soon as we start feeling crappy and oh I didn't hit this goal and then all of a sudden you're like this is wrong in my life and this is going wrong and then you're like I didn't finish this book that I was going to write and then I didn't and oh my God and just all these other parts because then you start looking for other parts that are wrong. When you turn attention to that gratefulness or that gratitude, then you start focusing on what's right in your life and that forces you to go back to; he talked about, his version is that there is a horizon and we walk towards our horizon. We don't feel bad that we can't ever hit the horizon. The horizon is our ideals and goal, because we know that a horizon keeps moving and that's the same way with our goals or ideals typically." Two things as I was thinking about that is the goal of the million. I want to touch on this for a second. At one point I was like okay I want to be a millionaire. I originally said I want to be a millionaire by age 30. It happened by 31. I didn't quite hit it but I hit it the year after. But it was like, one my mentors is this guy Jim Rohn, who I really like, and he said, "Set a goal to be a millionaire not for the money but for who it makes you become." Resources Mentioned in the Podcast: Maverick Startup How to Increase Your Happiness with Journal Writing Go to MaverickMBA.com for more info! Read the transcript: www.eventualmillionaire.com/blog/millionaire-story-yanik-silver/ Enjoy and Thanks for watching! Jaime Tardy youtu.be/Z2IKhtd0cUk
