10 Life Lessons to Elevate Your Career: In Tribute to Kobe Bryant
01/31/20 • 8 min
In tribute to Kobe Bryant, who has recent passed away in a tragic accident, Jay covers 10 life lessons that Kobe has inspired Jay to implement into his life to improve personally and professionally.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Always have a winning mentality because if you’re telling yourself that you’re going to loose, it’s more than likely that you’re going to loose.
- Keep learning, improving and paying attention because you’ve got to keep studying your craft.
- Work hard. If you follow Kobe’s story, one thing he always stood by was working hard. He practised the same shot over and over again.
- Live through pain, don’t let it defeat you. Have he right mind-set to go through the pain to get that result you wanted.
- Huge success only comes with huge sacrifice. Dedication and sacrificing all comes along with business too and it’s something we all will have to do.
- Never admit defeat. If you’re defeated in your mind, you’ve already lost.
- Don’t loose your edge and keep what makes you you. You often become unmotivated If you loose your edge so it’s important not to loose it.
- Never hate your haters, use it as ammunition and energy to drive you forward to prove them wrong.
- Conker your fear, everyone has to start somewhere but step by step you will get better. The more you do it, they better you’ll get.
- Leaders can’t win population contests. You’re not going to ever please everyone.
BEST MOMENTS
‘ Kobe’s passed away but his legacy carries on!’
‘The more you work, the more you get back’.
‘If you want it, you will do it’.
‘Life is short so enjoy it’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Jay Dhillon is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist based in the UK with a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success- and helping others do the same. From humble beginnings, Jay grew his first business from 0 to 500 employees and three locations, racking up sales of over £30 million – all without any investment other than a small amount of savings. The business went on to acquire major clients such as Landrover, Jaguar, Toyota and New Look, to name a few.
Its huge success inevitably brought about outside interest, and at the age of 33, Jay eventually sold the company to a London investment firm in Doyen Resources. Today, Jay owns several businesses in different sectors and helps entrepreneurs achieve success.
A calling to give back and help others led to Jay being chosen for the highly coveted role as a Prince’s Trust mentor, where his achievements were marked by a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles.
After helping several young entrepreneurs to success as a mentor for the Trust, Jay’s burning desire to bring his wisdom and knowledge to a wider audience ultimately triggered the concept of The Business Mentor Podcast.
Jay feels that anyone can achieve success in business with the right advice and mentoring and is now sharing his knowledge with his growing audience via his podcast.
In the UK alone, 95% of business fail within the first five years, and Jay’s aim is to reduce that number.
Backed with the hard-earned knowledge and experience from his time in business, The Business Mentor Podcast will share Jay’s personal business lessons as well those of other successful entrepreneur guests who share their wisdom and secrets on the show.
CONTACT METHOD
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jaydhillon
https://www.instagram.com/jaydhillonuk/
In tribute to Kobe Bryant, who has recent passed away in a tragic accident, Jay covers 10 life lessons that Kobe has inspired Jay to implement into his life to improve personally and professionally.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Always have a winning mentality because if you’re telling yourself that you’re going to loose, it’s more than likely that you’re going to loose.
- Keep learning, improving and paying attention because you’ve got to keep studying your craft.
- Work hard. If you follow Kobe’s story, one thing he always stood by was working hard. He practised the same shot over and over again.
- Live through pain, don’t let it defeat you. Have he right mind-set to go through the pain to get that result you wanted.
- Huge success only comes with huge sacrifice. Dedication and sacrificing all comes along with business too and it’s something we all will have to do.
- Never admit defeat. If you’re defeated in your mind, you’ve already lost.
- Don’t loose your edge and keep what makes you you. You often become unmotivated If you loose your edge so it’s important not to loose it.
- Never hate your haters, use it as ammunition and energy to drive you forward to prove them wrong.
- Conker your fear, everyone has to start somewhere but step by step you will get better. The more you do it, they better you’ll get.
- Leaders can’t win population contests. You’re not going to ever please everyone.
BEST MOMENTS
‘ Kobe’s passed away but his legacy carries on!’
‘The more you work, the more you get back’.
‘If you want it, you will do it’.
‘Life is short so enjoy it’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Jay Dhillon is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist based in the UK with a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success- and helping others do the same. From humble beginnings, Jay grew his first business from 0 to 500 employees and three locations, racking up sales of over £30 million – all without any investment other than a small amount of savings. The business went on to acquire major clients such as Landrover, Jaguar, Toyota and New Look, to name a few.
Its huge success inevitably brought about outside interest, and at the age of 33, Jay eventually sold the company to a London investment firm in Doyen Resources. Today, Jay owns several businesses in different sectors and helps entrepreneurs achieve success.
A calling to give back and help others led to Jay being chosen for the highly coveted role as a Prince’s Trust mentor, where his achievements were marked by a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles.
After helping several young entrepreneurs to success as a mentor for the Trust, Jay’s burning desire to bring his wisdom and knowledge to a wider audience ultimately triggered the concept of The Business Mentor Podcast.
Jay feels that anyone can achieve success in business with the right advice and mentoring and is now sharing his knowledge with his growing audience via his podcast.
In the UK alone, 95% of business fail within the first five years, and Jay’s aim is to reduce that number.
Backed with the hard-earned knowledge and experience from his time in business, The Business Mentor Podcast will share Jay’s personal business lessons as well those of other successful entrepreneur guests who share their wisdom and secrets on the show.
CONTACT METHOD
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jaydhillon
https://www.instagram.com/jaydhillonuk/
Previous Episode
9 Million Followers & 3 Billion Views – Top Tips From Social Media Entrepreneur Luca Gallone
Jay is chatting with Luca Gallone, global celebrity magician who has 2 million followers on Instagram, and 5 1⁄2 million followers on TikTok.
He has built an audience by putting out incredible content and over the last year has had around 3 billion views for his mind-blowing videos.
When so many people see your content, you start seeing other opportunities and after one of his videos went viral he was invited to appear on the Ellen show, the biggest talk show in America which has led to more opportunities globally.
Luca and Jay focus on the way different social media platforms can be used to build a following and Luca has some great advice on how to create viral content.
You don’t have to know exactly how your audience will build, start creating content and if you believe in your vision things will start coming to you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- My way of growing has mostly been based on creating viral content that is shared with millions of views this then brings followers from the content itself.
- It was a case of trying lots of different things, then working to make sure everything was the best it could be.
- At all times you need to be thinking about how your content can work for different audiences on different platforms.
- If you commit fully and work hard things will work out.
- Even if you don’t have a huge following you can create a bit of celebrity status and become a celebrity in your niche.
- Instagram is in a transition phase, all platforms ‘age up’ and young people don’t want to be on Instagram if their grandad is on it so they are moving over to TikTok.
- If you want to grow your followers make sure your video is fitted for the platform it is posted on.
- Look at the trends, TikTok is built on trends and the power of these trends is enormous.
- Collaborate with a bigger influencer to increase your reach and grow your followers.
- Keep content short – generally videos under 15 seconds are the most successful.
- You don’t have to know exactly how your audience will build the most important thing is to get started.
BEST MOMENTS
‘You should aim to be an expert in the area you are in ’
‘My content is about entertaining so the fandom is a little different’
‘I’m very careful about keeping control of my content’
‘Facebook took away the organic reach for influencers and some of my friends’ careers were ruined overnight because they put all their eggs in one basket’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Business Mentor podcast - Creating a Profitable Business in 30 Days with Luca Gallone
ABOUT THE HOST
Jay Dhillon is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist based in the UK with a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success- and helping others do the same. From humble beginnings, Jay grew his first business from 0 to 500 employees and three locations, racking up sales of over £30 million – all without any investment other than a small amount of savings. The business went on to acquire major clients such as Landrover, Jaguar, Toyota and New Look, to name a few.
Its huge success inevitably brought about outside interest, and at the age of 33, Jay eventually sold the company to a London investment firm in Doyen Resources. Today, Jay owns several businesses in different sectors and helps entrepreneurs achieve success.
A calling to give back and help others led to Jay being chosen for the highly coveted role as a Prince’s Trust mentor, where his achievements were marked by a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles.
After helping several young entrepreneurs to success as a mentor for the Trust, Jay’s burning desire to bring his wisdom and knowledge to a wider audience ultimately triggered the concept of The Business Mentor Podcast.
Jay feels that anyone can achieve success in business with the right advice and mentoring and is now sharing his knowledge with his growing audience via his podcast.
In the UK alone, 95% of business fail within the first five years, and Jay’s aim is to reduce that number.
Backed with the hard-earned knowledge and experience from his time in business, The Business Mentor Podcast will share Jay’s personal business lessons as well those of other successful entrepreneur guests who share their wisdom and secrets on the show.
CONTACT METHOD
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Battle Ready or Business Savvy?
Jay has a great philosophy about how to get things done when you face any challenging situation in business. The flight and fight mode of thinking is a powerful tool that Jay shares with his mentees and it has proven successful across many different challenges.
During the day as entrepreneurs, you are constantly thinking and it is these thought processes that put you in either flight or fight mode.
Fight mode is not positive and will not enable you to find the solution you need to move forward but if you get yourself into flight mode you are being business savvy and will be able to think creatively, find a solution and move forward.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- In any situation, you have to make a conscious choice about whether you respond in a fight or flight mode.
- Fight mode is when you are tense – looking at problems, thinking that the world is against me. It’s my fault, their fault you don’t take responsibility
- Flight mode is when you frame your thinking in a more positive way – e.g. If the client hasn’t paid, why haven’t they paid there must be a reason, can we sort out a payment plan.
- If you are in fight mode you are personally getting angry and are not thinking forward to a possible solution
- If you are in fight mode you are not going to get to the problem and you cannot solve a problem unless you can think creatively about it.
- If something negative happens you have to get into flight mode to be able to work on it and solve the problem so that you can move forward.
- In business, you are going to get challenges every day and so you need to be thinking about flight mode every day so that you are in the right frame of mind to solve the problems
- If something big happens it’s even more important that you get into flight mode so that you can think creatively to find a solution.
- If you have a situation – remember to ask yourself how will it best serve me if I go into fight mode? - blaming myself and blaming others?
- Choosing to go into flight mode means looking at the opportunities and what changes and steps you can take to make this better, and get through it successfully.
BEST MOMENTS
‘When you look back you will see it was not as big as it seemed when you were facing it initially’
‘At the time it seems massive but if you keep working through it and keep doing things, things will change’
‘All creative thinking comes when you are in flight mode’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Jay Dhillon is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist based in the UK with a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success- and helping others do the same. From humble beginnings, Jay grew his first business from 0 to 500 employees and three locations, racking up sales of over £30 million – all without any investment other than a small amount of savings. The business went on to acquire major clients such as Landrover, Jaguar, Toyota and New Look, to name a few.
Its huge success inevitably brought about outside interest, and at the age of 33, Jay eventually sold the company to a London investment firm in Doyen Resources. Today, Jay owns several businesses in different sectors and helps entrepreneurs achieve success.
A calling to give back and help others led to Jay being chosen for the highly coveted role as a Prince’s Trust mentor, where his achievements were marked by a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles.
After helping several young entrepreneurs to success as a mentor for the Trust, Jay’s burning desire to bring his wisdom and knowledge to a wider audience ultimately triggered the concept of The Business Mentor Podcast.
Jay feels that anyone can achieve success in business with the right advice and mentoring and is now sharing his knowledge with his growing audience via his podcast.
In the UK alone, 95% of business fail within the first five years, and Jay’s aim is to reduce that number.
Backed with the hard-earned knowledge and experience from his time in business, The Business Mentor Podcast will share Jay’s personal business lessons as well those of other successful entrepreneur guests who share their wisdom and secrets on the show.
CONTACT METHOD
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jaydhillon
https://www.instagram.com/jaydhillonuk/
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