Using Shame & Rage When Setting Goals, Octopus For Breakfast Story, and Flipping Disadvantages

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Sam Parr** (1:02)
Here is how I set goals so that I can actually hit them. And this is coming from some guy who is, frankly, pretty lazy.
And I don't, I'm not like you. I'm not like, oh, I need to lose weight. I must have a 500 calorie deficit. Therefore, it is done. I will now track this thing. That always felt like too much work to me. But let me tell you what does work for me.

**Shaan Puri** (1:27)
By the way, it's the exact opposite. It's less work to do it that way because then you don't think. You just like do. You just do what you're supposed to do.

**Sam Parr** (1:33)
There's a classic thing that somebody who has discipline and willpower says. Like, oh, it's easier to just do it right the first time. Yeah, we know, bro. If we, and we know that that's true, we just don't live life that way. Like, it's okay.
You know, I speak from the procrastinator's perspective.

**Shaan Puri** (1:55)
All right, you want to tell us about this game or what?

**Sam Parr** (1:57)
Well, first of all, I think we need to spice up the intro.
I think the intro needs to be, like right now, we're just casual with it. We just come on like it's just a conversation, and people love that. They love the authenticity, but you know what?
You know what works? When you become a cheese ball, and you just start performing and make it a show, and you give a proper intro, and you do all the things. This is My First Million, the podcast that has two future trillionaires that come at you. Oh, by the way, did you see this guy who went on LinkedIn and then quoted the Manifest Cowboys thing?

**Shaan Puri** (2:31)
Wait, whoa, what happened?

**Sam Parr** (2:32)
I tagged you in it. Some guy was telling a story. Did you use LinkedIn? Oh bro, I'm going ham on LinkedIn right now.

**Shaan Puri** (2:39)
Are you alive? What do you mean? Like trying to get popular?

**Sam Parr** (2:41)
I told you I hired that content remixer guy, Brandon. And so Brandon's been amazing. What he does is he just takes my old good tweets, he posts them on LinkedIn, and people on LinkedIn, bro, it's a gun to a knife fight. They're like, wow, incredible content. This is, wow, what a conversation, this is stimulating. Because LinkedIn is like the most boring content farm, generically, right? So like, I've been over here fighting on Twitter against like, fucking professional tweeters who are researching eight hours a day and like creating these like epic threads.
And I just come off the dome, bro. Like, I'm that painting at the top of the Sistine Chapel. I'm just off the top.
And now I bring that to LinkedIn and it's a whole new, it's a habanero pepper for them. And so it's a ghost pepper. It's the last wing on Hot Ones and they don't know what to do with it. And so this guy has been posting. So I just get to check the notifications and I'll be like, oh shit, he posted that thing from like a year ago that I said.
And people on LinkedIn are loving it. But today-