Iron Tamer Dave Whitley is a motivational speaker and strongman based in Nashville TN. As a kid, Dave was overweight and had a terrible stutter. Retreating into a world of fantasy and comic books, he dreamed of becoming Super Human. Now, as a motivational speaker, he uses Super Human feats of strength to share his message with his audience.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Joe Vitale – Click this link to listen to the Dr Joe Vitale Podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
- Bob Proctor
- Napoleon Hill
- Wallace Wattles
Also mentioned
- Dennis Rogers – Mentor
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I grew up in a household where the idea of wealth and the idea of prosperity was something that only other people experience… And I grew up thinking that if you work really hard and if you are honest then you will be successful. But I didn’t have a real definition of what success meant. I grew up in environment of well we may not have a lot of money or a lot of wealth but we are honest and we are good people… So what I had to overcome was some hang-ups about money and wealth and about what kind of person that means that you are”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
- As a Man Thinketh Book by James Allen
- Neville Goddard Books
Favourite Quote:
- ” imagination creates reality” Neville Goddard
- “man’s only limitation is weakness of attention and poverty of imagination” Neville Goddard
Also mentioned
- “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” Earl Nightingale
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Stephen Larsen
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“persist in whatever the next small step is. We all have the big vision, we all come up with a plan but it’s very easy to see that is something that can be way far down the road and gets caught up in the day-to-day busy-ness of our business. And a long period of time can pass and you been very busy but you haven’t really accomplished anything. So persisting in whatever that end vision is and making it as real as possible in your mind so much so that if you wake up in the morning and think okay if I’ve already complex this goal what’s my day going to look like today versus what can I do today to take me closer to the goal. And that’s not just semantics there’s very important mental shift in their of what I call ‘living from the end’. So if I can really imagine and put myself in the place of the person whose accomplished whatever it is that I’ve decided I want to do it’s almost like from that point of view I can look back to where I am in the present moment and see the path that it took to get there much more clearly than trying to create a path from here to there out of information I don’t know yet ”…[Listen for More]
More About Dave Whitley:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” Aristotle
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dave Whitley:
- “from a business standpoint none of your customers, none of your clients are going to care if you almost did what you wanted them to do. If you almost got a result. None of that matters. As an entrepreneur we are compensated for done not doing”
- “the only way to succeed is to embrace failure. And failure doesn’t mean defeat, failure means here is an opportunity for you to see what worked and do more of it and see what didn’t work and do less of it. And to me that’s all failure is. Failure is just part of a learning process… Failure is not something to be avoided, failure is not something to be feared, failure is something to be embraced and learned from”
- “you cannot aggressively realise something without experiencing failure along the way because failure and progression are intimately tied to each other”
- “we don’t dream big enough and we don’t persist long enough to enjoy the fruits of whatever we imagined and that’s the only reason that anyone fails”
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