Quitting is Too Easy with Omar El Takrori | Ep 26

Omar: 00:00:00

I learned this in the military from this. There's this colonel, he says, you know, when something crazy happens, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall down to the level of training.

Arjun: 00:00:16

This episode was a lot of fun to shoot.

I sat down and also it was a privilege to be with Omar El Takrori, who's an entrepreneur, a content creator and a pastor, which is three very interesting things to all put into one sentence.

But we had a very unique and fun conversation, not just about marketing and business, but about callings in life and how we continue to show up in this world, serve other people, put them ahead of ourselves, and ultimately that's how we achieve success. I got so much out of this episode. I know you guys will too. So please enjoy the show and listening to thoughts and reflections from Omar.

Omar, thanks, brother, for sitting down with me to do this, man. Privilege is all mine, man. I've admired and respected so much of what you do and see you online helping people.

You really give and you're always in service. The communities and others, and those are my kind of people that I'm drawn to. So this is a real privilege to be able to do, man.

I appreciate you making the time, man.

Omar: 00:01:18

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:01:19

So listen, man, like in a world where we all know that having a voice and being visible is so important, which is a big part of LFG energy, it's not being quiet, like making yourself known, you know, like standing up. Don't be quiet, be heard. Why is it almost a two part question? It's difficult for people to get started. Why is it for.

Why is it so easy for people to quit? Right? Because you see this, you consult with so many people.

Why would you say it's so easy for them to quit if you had to, if you had to summarize, I think it's.

Omar: 00:01:48

Well, it's so easy to quit because it usually is the easiest option. Yeah, right. And I think most people are doing something to get an immediate result.

And if, if most people just increase their or change what your definition of success is, most people quit something because they believe whatever it is they're doing isn't working. And something I've learned from my business coach, his name is Myron Golden. He talks about how all work works. Right.

So what do you mean all work works?

All work works means the thing you're doing, even with the intention to grow, get better, scale, whatever it is that it's either working on you or working for you. We want it to always work for us. But when it's not Working for us, that means it's working on us. And that's work we need.

Like, we need to do things that teach us, like, lessons. We need to do things that make us fail so we could learn. Like, that's all work that's working on you.

Most people, again, even like, creating content and stuff, they don't see the immediate result. What they don't realize is, like, dude, you need to become a better communicator.

So, like, by you showing up, it's working on you to become a better communicator.

Arjun: 00:03:02

Right? And that's a. That's a good point you bring up because it's so easy to see in this digital age. We look at people, we see these.

This person's an influencer. Like, this person went from here to here, right?

And it happened so quickly and easily, but there's so much work behind it and involvement and continually improving.

Omar: 00:03:20

Most of the people online that you see what they do and it looks easy, it's because they did it for a long time.

Arjun: 00:03:26

Right.

Omar: 00:03:26

And they worked on it.

Arjun: 00:03:27

Right.

Omar: 00:03:28

And here's.

Arjun: 00:03:28

Not everybody can have a sex tape that they just blow up with, right?

Omar: 00:03:31

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:03:32

That easy?

Omar: 00:03:32

Pretty much, yeah.

And the reality is, is if you do not accept the fact that all work is working, then what actually tends to happen is you believe it's working against you. And when you believe work is working against you, that's why you quit. But you just need to change what you believe about the work you're doing.

And if you believe that all work works, it'll make sure it'll be easier to stay than it is to leave.

Arjun: 00:03:58

And is that what drives you because you are considered and called the content king? Right. That's like, not. That's not an easy title to just throw out there.

But there's only one guy in the country who carries that title, and that's you. I think of you as a marketing and execution specialist.

You market as well, and you teach people and you do it in a way that's so easy to understand, and you coach people and guide them. It's beautiful. Right. But talk to me about how that work ties into, you know, to what we're discussing here.

Omar: 00:04:26

I mean, I've just.

That's kind of like the God part of my story is I didn't know when I was in high school, which, by the way, I went to the same high school that Neil's wife went to.

Arjun: 00:04:36

Wow.

Omar: 00:04:37

Silver High School. Sky or Die Hawks. Let's go. But no, I took broadcast journalism, and it was the elective that allowed people.

e process. And that was like,: 2007

I didn't know that. Fast forward X amount of years where we are now having this conversation. That video would be essential to all things.

opped teaching cursive around: 2010

Like, it wasn't like a mandatory thing to learn. I don't know what these Gen Zs are going to sign now. I don't know what their signatures are going to do.

Arjun: 00:05:23

I don't know.

Omar: 00:05:23

Maybe just scribbles. I don't know. But they stopped teaching it. And truly, I believe being able to communicate effectively on video, it's a language.

It's a new language that most people need to adopt. And. And I. Thankfully, I didn't change. I never quit. Most people.

A lot of people think I'm, like, very talented, but I would just say I just never quit.

Arjun: 00:05:46

Yeah. And so you refuse to be out.

Omar: 00:05:48

I just kept the. I just kept the camera in my hand. So I. That camera journeyed with me through various contexts. I was making music videos for my friends who wrapped.

And then I ended up starting a mini agency and, like, doing some stuff for nonprofits and churches. And then a cool opportunity came where now I then started teaching video. And that was the platform I did it on. It's called Think Media.

It's on YouTube. Helped to grow that channel to millions of subscribers.

And now I'm finding that, you know, I really have a conviction that small businesses are, like, they, like, the country's built on small businesses.

Arjun: 00:06:26

Yes. It is the backbone. Yes.

Omar: 00:06:27

Yeah. On entrepreneurs. And if I can help entrepreneurs make more money, multiply themselves with video, why not?

Arjun: 00:06:37

Yeah.

Omar: 00:06:38

And I would just argue there's no better activity in your business than to create content. So when people say, like, I don't have time to do the thing, I would say, what are you doing now? That actually is replicating you.

Arjun: 00:06:50

Mm.

Omar: 00:06:51

But every time you make a piece of content, you replicate yourself.

You know, that's when I drop my podcasts every week I go golf, because I know thousands of people are going to hang out with me while I go golf, so I can, like, trade that time. That. That. That's happening. And it's a. It's a powerful thing.

Arjun: 00:07:06

You said something about not quitting.

Omar: 00:07:09

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:07:09

Which is, you know, mantra for life. It's a huge tenet of LFG mindset.

Omar: 00:07:14

Right.

Arjun: 00:07:14

We talk about. We just refuse to quit. If you don't quit, you can't lose.

Omar: 00:07:17

Yeah. Yeah.

Arjun: 00:07:18

You can't beat the guy who just keeps getting up.

Omar: 00:07:20

Right.

Arjun: 00:07:20

Talk to me about that mindset in marketing. I know for you, this is why you continue to push and forge ahead.

But for businesses and people that are getting started in this, why is this going to be so huge and key going forward for success?

Omar: 00:07:35

Yeah. There's a scripture in the Bible. It's Galatians.

This guy named Paul wrote this letter in Galatians, and he has this, this line where it says, don't grow weary in doing good, for in due season you will reap a harvest if you don't quit. Here's what's crazy about that. People quit a good thing all the time. But it.

The reward doesn't come at some point, the reward comes in the not quitting. So, like, the actual. The harvest is. The harvest is staying. And I think it is like, when you say a mindset, it's a belief too.

It's the belief to know that if what I'm doing is a good thing and anyone could classify what a good thing, you know, like God's woven eternity in people's hearts. So we all have this, like, compass that does tell us that what we're doing is good.

You know, and maybe if you're listening to this, if what you're doing is maybe for selfish ambition or for greed, you know, one day you'll run into a dead end.

But if what you're doing is good, if what you're doing is getting families into homes, if what you're doing is helping people start their wealth journey, if you're, if what you're doing is breaking family curses with maybe they, you know, as a child you lived in 10 different rental properties. And like now you're trying to plant roots with your now family, you know, like, that's a good thing. So don't quit doing that good thing.

Arjun: 00:09:06

Yeah.

Omar: 00:09:06

And in due season, and you know, it's funny, there's. There's like these preachers and they have.

There's like this funny preaching line they say, like there's on the calendar, there's four seasons, but on God's calendar, there's a fifth season, and it's called due season. It's when. It's when it all just clicks. When you understand that like, this is what I was made for. I was made for the good work.

Arjun: 00:09:28

Right.

Omar: 00:09:28

And there is no. There is no ending of that good work.

Arjun: 00:09:31

Right.

Omar: 00:09:31

The harvest is in actually. The. The repetition and the moment of realization, Right? Yeah.

Arjun: 00:09:37

And this do moment that you speak of happens. But so few people make have the perseverance and the endurance to get there. Right. You're one of the few.

I'm sitting and talking with you, which makes you the most equipped person to answer. Then why is it then that people quit? What causes them to stop? Is it the obsession with instant gratification that they want it too easy?

Was the purpose not strong enough? What is it?

Omar: 00:09:59

I think if I were to choose one word, it would be their lack of obsession. The reason why you're capable of quitting is because you're taking whatever you're doing too casually.

And I believe if you obsess over the people you're called to serve and you obsess over the problems that they're facing, you'll never have a reason to quit, because there's always another problem to solve. There's always another human being to serve. There's no run out of that.

And so I believe, I like to say that, like, the secret to most people's success is found in their obsession. But go back to the thing that you're. What makes you so in love of with something, you know?

You know, some people just, like, they, you know, when it comes to creating content, they struggle with being themselves or talking about something they like or they care about. Like, at this event, you know, I had lunch with somebody randomly yesterday, Just saw in the hallway, ended up at lunch, and she's like.

She's a real estate agent. She's like, I don't know, man. I just like fitness, but I don't know how to, like, include that. And I was like, how long have you been into fitness?

She's like, my whole life. You're obsessed. Like, did you know that your obsession could be the reason why somebody connects with you as to why they would want to work with you?

Like, you show up and she's just fit. Like, dude, you just chiseled everything. I'm like, shoot, man, I can. I was convicted, you know, But I think it's just leaning back.

And when I say obsession, I mean the thing that, like, that comes easy to you. There's a. There's a reason why you spend a little bit more time looking at, you know, maybe it's an obsession toward, you know, a team or sports.

Like, that's all good. But like using that allows allowing you to serve more people. Like, I mean, it's a beautiful thing.

Arjun: 00:12:00

I think on the topic of obsession and combining it with resolve for a lot of people and I'm assuming this may be you children of immigrants or people that maybe just inherently feel like the odds are against me anyways. Right. I'm going to have to do a little bit extra to be on even. Even standing with whoever I compete against. Is there a bit of that in you? Well, do.

Omar: 00:12:23

My parents are moved. My mom moved here from the Philippines when she was 18. My dad from Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia when he was 18 to San Francisco, went to college, met each other and you know, I. The reason why I feel like the obsession thing levels the playing field is because we all have a unique makeup.

There's a reason why we just like something more than the average person. And, and that I just. That's. Everyone has that. I think that's like actually a God given thing.

And so when people have an excuse or want to find a reason why the odds are stacked against them, I actually think you're just focusing on the wrong thing. What if the odds are actually stacked for you, but you're just looking at the odds stacked against you? That's the funny thing about worry and hope.

Hope is the positive expectation of good. They also say like faith is the. Faith is the belief that there is a favorable outcome in your future, whereas worry is a.

Is a unfavorable outcome in your future. Both require energy and attention. The thing though is because we're just.

We default to worry when things aren't going good or we default to worry when we think about. We usually think about what's the worst thing that could happen. That's like our first train of thought.

What about what's the best thing that can happen?

Arjun: 00:13:49

Sure.

Omar: 00:13:50

But the thing about worry is if we give worry that energy, we actually give the very thing. The energy for that thing that we were worried about happening to actually happen.

Arjun: 00:14:00

You're willing it into existence, right?

Omar: 00:14:02

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.

Arjun: 00:14:03

You're feeding it.

Omar: 00:14:04

And so I mean these are all. This is why I love teaching principles. From what. From my angle with what I teach. Because it.

I think everyone has a place that I think the, like I believe in the, the abundance of. There's, There's. There's enough for everyone to win.

Arjun: 00:14:21

Yes.

Omar: 00:14:21

And then some.

Arjun: 00:14:23

So it sounds to me because you're tying everything to an actual. Or tapping into a bit of resolve into people like people you teach, for example.

Omar: 00:14:32

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:14:32

You have things that you can execute on which we already know you execute as well as anybody at your game. The country, like anyone. Right. That's you. But getting people to actually do it and tying it to something bigger. Maybe it's the obsession.

You said we were talking about people quitting, the lack of obsession.

Omar: 00:14:49

Maybe it was.

Arjun: 00:14:50

Maybe the will wasn't strong enough. But if those two things are tied or in alignment, it seems like anything's possible. From your standpoint.

Omar: 00:14:56

I believe so, yes. I think we're all called to serve a special kind of somebody. Not everybody.

Arjun: 00:15:02

Sure.

Omar: 00:15:03

And that's okay?

Arjun: 00:15:04

Yes.

Omar: 00:15:04

If everyone wanted to work with you, you wouldn't even be able to handle it. You would be crushed.

Arjun: 00:15:09

Of course.

Omar: 00:15:10

So I want specific business. I want, I want specific service. I actually believe if you want to be the best servant or like the best, I think believe entrepreneur.

Get so good at the level of service you're doing with people that you can guarantee results. And you. I can't guarantee results for everybody, but I can guarantee results for a certain small group of people.

People who, who can self identify that what they do, they know that they themselves are pretty good at what they do.

It's like if you believe that and you have like some receipts to show that you're pretty good at what you do, then just, just turning on a camera and actually sharing how you're able to do that should just only lead to more of that.

Arjun: 00:15:52

And you're constantly in service to others. Right. In what you do do that. And that fuels you. You see, like it lights you up. Even just sitting across from you.

Like, this is your thing, everyone's got it. You found yours. You also served in military, right? You served in the National Guard for nine years.

Now that's not something that I feel like people just kind of wake up one day and decide, maybe I'll do this.

Omar: 00:16:17

Yeah, perhaps.

Arjun: 00:16:18

But you don't strike me as a guy that just impulsively said, I'm going to do this. What was the awakening or what was there a moment or something that happened that spurred this.

Omar: 00:16:27

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:16:28

This pivot in your life because you were how old when you made this decision?

Omar: 00:16:31

n, I graduated high school in: 2009

Arjun: 00:16:34

Okay.

Omar: 00:16:34

And sorry if that made you feel old. You like said, okay, like, this is my show.

Arjun: 00:16:39

Okay. You understand? Like I'm the one who tells the shitty jokes. Okay.

Omar: 00:16:44

Yeah. So: 2009

,: 2001

Arjun: 00:17:03

We need to cut to break.

Omar: 00:17:05

But, dude, I remember the television and just watching the airplanes hit those buildings and I. And I lived here. I was here in Las Vegas and I was like, why would they. Like, somebody's going to come here.

Like, we have buildings that are just easy target.

Arjun: 00:17:19

Totally.

Omar: 00:17:20

I was. I literally remember that fear and anxiety.

Yeah, all that and then going to school and it was, it was on, you know, it was on the screen and we were just like, everyone was just reflecting and there was cops at every school. It was like a crazy time. But that was like a seed.

I didn't know what that seed would grow into, not knowing that, you know, when I did graduate college or high school, I just wanted to be a part of the solution because of how impactful that day was. And I knew we were still in it, like, just however many years that was, eight or so years after that. And so that was like the real reason.

It was like, I want to be a part of the solution to this thing. And so, funny story, I just. I actually wanted to just enlist into the Air Force. That was my thought.

I was like, I'm just going to enlist in the Air Force, do my thing and then I'll get out one day or whatever. And then my friend was in the office, he just commissioned as an army officer and he just gave me the game.

He was like, bro, stay in Las Vegas, go to college, get it paid for, commission as an officer, tell people what to do, get paid more, you know, like. And so I just went down that path and that's how I ended up in the Guard.

Arjun: 00:18:25

I remember where I was and you, you know, mocking my age there. You were in fifth grade. I was in college. I remember like turning on the television and I had a.

One of my step brothers worked in the World Trade center. And he lost pretty much, I think everyone in his office. He just so happened to be out of the office at that time.

Omar: 00:18:44

Wow.

Arjun: 00:18:44

These are moments that, you know, we remember and recall back to. But there's in a lot of what you were saying there, there's a big feeling of me in you that is indomitable spirit. Like you had.

You felt this call and this strong desire to want to do something, to be part of a solution.

Omar: 00:19:03

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:19:03

And you took action on it.

I feel like, you know, for a lot of young people that are thinking of Enlisting or even if it's just a serve community society, there's actually a void right now.

Omar: 00:19:14

Like Gen Z doesn't want to serve the country. Why is that you think they don't.

Arjun: 00:19:18

They're not love this country?

Omar: 00:19:19

I don't, I don't want to generalize, but I would say they're their exposure to probably what they've seen on their version of television, which would be social media, which in many cases all, all forms of media have maybe some level of agenda.

Arjun: 00:19:34

Sure, of course.

Omar: 00:19:35

But maybe a stronger agenda than what we experienced on television like on social media. And so yeah, they don't, they don't have it. They don't really have a real reason why they should love this country with.

Arjun: 00:19:47

Respect to like America's place in the world or. Yeah.

Omar: 00:19:50

Just like people's view and how the general populate population, generally speaking, how we talk of our leaders in office. I don't know.

It's funny because everyone who would be in uniform, they're usually the ones not complaining but they're the ones working for the person in office. But why is the person that just like gets to do what they want every day, that gets to live in the freedom have be the most opinionated. It's crazy.

Arjun: 00:20:15

Of course, you know that's generally from the bench, right?

Omar: 00:20:17

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:20:18

Peanut gallery.

Omar: 00:20:18

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:20:19

Yeah.

Omar: 00:20:19

But they just opened up like. I don't know. It's not that it's not. It wasn't. They didn't open up a draft recently, but they did automate. It's like they automatically.

You, you don't. You know, usually when you get your license you like sign a thing that's like, hey, if something were to happen, you would do that.

Now you don't even have to get your license. Everybody is being a part of that database to be called on if, if that if anything ever happens.

But it's because of the lack of the amount of people that want to go in and serve.

Arjun: 00:20:46

It's unfortunate. I don't know what that answer is going to be.

Omar: 00:20:48

No. Yeah.

Arjun: 00:20:49

And what we'll have to do because it doesn't seem to me that the world is getting any calmer.

Omar: 00:20:54

Right.

Arjun: 00:20:54

Like it's.

Omar: 00:20:55

Especially today.

Arjun: 00:20:55

Dude, you mentioned. My goodness, today is a very surreal day.

Omar: 00:20:59

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:21:00

And what we just witnessed a few hours ago.

Omar: 00:21:01

Wild, right?

Arjun: 00:21:02

It's crazy. But on the topic of indomitable spirit because it brings us back here, right.

And what we're talking about and the fact that there's a, maybe a lack thereof in this current generation to serve, whether it's in the military, Serve the country, do something for the greater good. How. How would you want to, you know, because you came from a different generation.

How would you advise this generation to, you know, let's go, let's wake up, let's do something right. If you could guide. But again, whether it's in service to the country or doing something else for society, how would you advise them?

If I put you in a group of a bunch of Gen zers, I would first.

Omar: 00:21:38

Before I told them anything, I would just ask them because I would want to better understand.

Arjun: 00:21:41

Yes.

Omar: 00:21:42

I think I'm a millennial. It's not like I'm like this old. Like, you know, just me.

Arjun: 00:21:47

You're not as old as me, but.

Omar: 00:21:50

I'm not like, I don't know if this is what you. I don't. You guys, like, felt about us guys or the. Or even like boomers.

Like, dude, am I just going through a season where we just noticed that there's. The generation coming after us is just different. They're wired differently, and they should be because they got different. It's different.

Like, dude, the phone. Like, my daughter knows how to use this device, like, really well.

Like, she holds her five and a half, okay, and she swipes things and she moves things over. It's crazy. But I would just ask, like, like, what. What do you feel? What do you need? And why do you feel like you need that?

And you know that I do think there's a. Again, this very generalized, you know, observation. There's a little bit of a, you know, we want a relationship. You know, there.

There's a little bit of entitlement. A little bit. And not that that's to say it's a terrible thing to be entitled, but where is that coming from? You know?

And, and did you know that you have to, like, work hard? Like, you have to actually work. Like, like spend time and develop skills and serve and.

Dude, I personally, I spent my twenties just building other people's thing. I didn't have any agenda other than what. I just want to help this person build their empire and for some other people to build it. Build.

Help this person build their church. And, you know, the arm. I'm going to help build this country. Like, I gave my 20s away.

And I think there is also a lack of patience, you know, someone like. And I'm. Dude, I only have Gen Z that works for me, you know, and one of the girls that works for me, she. She feels like she's behind.

Arjun: 00:23:26

Yeah, you're lying to. Yeah.

Omar: 00:23:27

I'm like, you're 24. 4, and you own a home. You're in the 1 percentile. Why do you feel behind?

Arjun: 00:23:36

You're winning.

Omar: 00:23:36

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:23:37

Yeah.

Omar: 00:23:37

But there is. There's. There. They have. They got voices like, that are louder than voices pre. We probably had growing up.

Arjun: 00:23:43

Very.

Omar: 00:23:43

Yeah, very. That are telling them something that's not true.

Arjun: 00:23:47

Sure. Constantly comparing. Right. And comparison is a beef of joy.

Omar: 00:23:51

Yes, it is. Yeah. Amen.

Arjun: 00:23:52

Absolutely is.

Omar: 00:23:53

And, yeah. I would just. Probably just want to unpack. I just want to unpack where they're at. And. And honestly.

Because I know in my servant's heart it would be to meet them where they're at.

Arjun: 00:24:00

Yes.

Omar: 00:24:01

And then help them, you know, in their way. And, like, they will. They will probably do more, accomplish more than us, because they have more resources.

Arjun: 00:24:10

Now. This is how I know you're an evolved man, Omar, because of how you answer that question.

You said that you would want to understand where they're coming from. Right. You seek to understand rather than to be understood.

Omar: 00:24:19

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:24:19

And say, hey, little shits, like, fall in line here. You know, like, enlist, serve your country. Do something. Get off your ass. Which is what I want to say, by the way.

Omar: 00:24:26

I'm going to break down really quickly the greatest retirement plan plan that I've never heard before, but I only was exposed to till after the fact.

Arjun: 00:24:33

Let's do it, man. That's a great pivot. I love it.

Omar: 00:24:36

Here's why you should join the military, okay. It's because if you join the military and you just maybe hit a deployment or one or two, and not all deployments are combat deployments.

A lot of them are just aid, you know, service and stuff like that. And maybe. Maybe Rich doesn't like this answer, but I just found this out. There are benefits for people for the rest of your life.

After minimum time spent in service, you get the VA loan, which means you get to enter a home with a great mortgage plug. Yeah.

If anything ever were to happen to you, if anyone belittled you, if you tweaked your ankle, if anything happened to you while you were wearing uniform, you're entitled to up to $4,000 a month for the rest of your life. That's not even a retirement. You don't have to wait 20 years. Dude, I've never heard anybody say this, and I think it's because it's frowned upon.

What I'm not saying is if you feel like you shouldn't get it, but I had a conversation with a guy and he was like, bro, you served. I was like, yeah, dude, I did my time. And he's like, you have VA benefits. And I was like, I got the VA loan.

He's like, for sure, but do you have disability? I was like, no, dude, I'm straight. See me, I'm good. He's like, have you ever been hurt? And I was like, for sure.

You know, we did ruck marches, 35 mile. Ruck marches with 30 pounds on my. Like, that's not good on the body, you know, I've been yelled at, all that stuff, whatever, you know.

But overall, I'm grateful for my experience. He's like, bro, you're missing out. And I'll just leave that there.

Arjun: 00:26:10

That's a great retirement plan, dude.

Omar: 00:26:14

If you. Yeah, dude, join at 18, get out at 24 and coast. Right? Okay.

Arjun: 00:26:19

All right. There's in your past and how it's helped you in the present life. Experiences things that have happened, even culturally.

And again, being a child of immigrants, I've always said this to myself. I've got this mantra that I say in big moments, that everything that has happened to me in my life has prepared me for this moment.

I live for these moments. I love these moments. I'm ready. Like, it primes me.

Omar: 00:26:41

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:26:41

You find.

Are there things from your childhood, from your experience, from your formative years that help you persevere, endure breakthrough in the LFG spirit every day as an entrepreneur, as a father, as a human being, are there things that you actually recall from or tap into?

Omar: 00:26:58

Dude, I think it's a tension between the two. It's the past and the future that determine my present. Right.

So there are things I do because it happened to me in the past or it didn't happen to me in the past. Right. Like, personally, I never saw my parents be affectionate in front of us. I, like, I can recall, like, two dates they went on our entire life.

Still married. Amazing.

Arjun: 00:27:20

Sure.

Omar: 00:27:21

But, like, they just didn't show affection. And so I didn't know what it looked like, and I. And I actually, like, struggle with that now. It's like, it's not that I don't love my wife.

We've been married for 11 years, and, like, I'm just not the best at showing affection, but it's because it's my default.

Arjun: 00:27:36

Right. It wasn't modeled for you.

Omar: 00:27:38

Yeah. And so.

And in many areas, there's the money area, you know, like, my parents didn't teach me too much about money investing and stuff, so it's like I Feel like I'm learning so much in such a short amount of time and I realize how much easier I am going to make it for my kids. And that is, that's what you could consider generational blessing.

It's like, you know, there's usually one guy in the family that like says, nope, it starts here, it ends here, and it starts here, you know, but there's this book called 10x is easier than 2x. Yeah. Dr. Dr. Benjamin Hardy. Okay, so there's this guy, his name is Dr. Benjamin Hardy, who wrote a book called 10x is easier than 2x.

And he would actually say people who are living from the past limit their present, therefore limiting your future. But if you actually live from your future, you create a new, new realities in your present.

So what this is why he says, like if you can set an impossible goal in an impossible timeframe, it's going to change the way you think, the way you ask questions, the way you move, the way you make decisions, all because of a decision you made for your future. And so I believe in the context of me as the man, like the husband, father, leader, I make a lot of decisions presently based on the future.

And one of those being a father is, is making sure my kids, when they turn 18, 20, 21, and they go off, that they would have everything they would need to be successful. That. But me, me parenting from my past won't give them that, that threshold to live from, you know, so there's that tension.

It's like you try to identify the things in my past that can make me better today. That, because I've acknowledged it and I've acknowledged that maybe that's trauma, maybe that's some.

That's why I have a limiting belief around something, money, whatever. But then make a decision like, hey, I'm going to be, you know, I'm going to throw an event eventually. I'm going to throw an event in February.

It's been my first event. It's a pretty impossible goal because I didn't really, I've never done this before. I have a lot of friends that have.

But by, by saying like, this is happening on this date now I'm just going to function differently before that date happens. So creating like deciding what you want in your future actually determines what you do in your present.

And even in the context of entrepreneurship, he says that if you actually say this to your team based on a goal, let's just say it's like for plain numbers, we do whatever, 50 deals a month. It's like, hey, Guys, for the summer, I want to hit 500 deals. So what's going to happen is in.

Because you use the future to bring to the present, it's going to make people, some people are going to be like, how are we going to do that?

There's going to be people that say lfg, but if you never said it, those people that have the LFG spirit won't speak up because most people have more vision than the person leading them. But the person leading them needs to just say, hey, let's raise it.

And then what happens is people literally disqualify themselves in the present for a future goal, which is you don't want, at the end of this future goal, they might not even, they're not even supposed to be there potentially. And you just use the future to take, to take out people that aren't supposed to be with you on this journey.

You know, just, just by setting the goal in the future, you got all this clarity in the present. And what's cool about that too is even if you don't hit the goal, you probably will exceed 50 sales a month. The win, win situation is right.

Isn't that crazy?

Arjun: 00:31:10

It is crazy.

Omar: 00:31:11

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:31:11

And that's beautifully summarized.

Omar: 00:31:13

Yeah.

Arjun: 00:31:13

One of the last things I always ask, people may have shed some light on this, so I wouldn't be surprised to bring some of it back in, which is no right or wrong answer. What does LFG energy mean to you? If I had to ask you that question, what does it mean to you? How would you define it?

Omar: 00:31:30

I would define that as, I mean, we kind of talked about earlier, but if I gave it a word, it would just be consistency. Just consistency. Like when people see me think about me when I die, I hope people just know that like, dude, that dude was consistent.

And I think another word we can actually use for consistent is integris. Like integrity is the person you are when everybody's watching and when nobody's watching that, it's that person in between.

And that gap, the shorter that gap is, the more integrity you have. And that comes from self awareness. That comes from fixing, getting, getting help on your blind spots.

That comes from staying in your lane that, you know, and, and, and, and so, yeah, like, I mean, I don't, you know, I, I learned this in the military from this. There's this colonel, he says, you know, when something crazy happens, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall down to the level of training.

Arjun: 00:32:34

Yes.

Omar: 00:32:35

And so like, what do you do when nobody's watching? Are you showing up, you know, like another. I mean, I just think in quotes, but another one I think about. I believe.

I believe Bruce Lee said it, but he says long term consistency is better than short bursts of intensity.

Arjun: 00:32:54

Yes.

Omar: 00:32:55

I think when we hear the word or we hear the phrase lfg, you think of, like, short. It might seem like, let's go. Yeah, but do that. That'll fit. That'll fizzle out, bro. That's not gonna make you last. No, but. But long.

Like, let's freaking go for a long time. Yeah, that's the goal.

Arjun: 00:33:14

Let's not stop.

Omar: 00:33:14

Let's not stop. Yeah. Because when you don't quit, you win.

Arjun: 00:33:19

You win.

Omar: 00:33:20

Win.

Arjun: 00:33:20

Yeah. That guy cannot be beat.

Omar: 00:33:22

Yeah, right?

Arjun: 00:33:23

That's indomitable spirit as well, which I think of with you, man. So, Omar, the content king, I look forward to seeing you unleash a shit ton of LFG energy with the success of your event in February. I'll be there.

I know it's going to be a massive success, man. Everything you touch goes that way because you don't quit.

Omar: 00:33:41

Right.

Arjun: 00:33:41

And I look forward to being there for it, man. But thank you for being on the show.

I look forward to doing this again and talking about more your success and more of the impact you're having on people around you, because we all feel it, man. Everyone who gets to meet you says that, so thank you, brother.