At only 20 years old, Tristan James has become an expert in human motivation with endorsements by Pastor Joel Osteen and Mike Tyson. He is a best-selling author and nationally recognized motivational speaker, and international life coach being called by many in the self-development industry the “next Tony Robbins.”

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• Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
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• Google Trends – Tristan’s small business resource
• Made in America – Tristan’s Top Business Book
• Tristan James – Tristan’s website
• How to Finally Win – Create your dream life one step at a time
• The Freedom Journal – Set & Accomplish your #1 goal in 100 days!

3 Key Points:

1. Look forward to your future pleasures that are tied to those long-term goals.
2. It’s from our purpose that we can live out and do all that we do.
3. Always take actions toward your dreams and goals.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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• [00:18] – How to Finally Win – Create your dream life one step at a time
• [00:31] – JLD introduces Tristan
• [01:03] – Tristan is 21 from Richmond, VA
• [01:20] – Tristan is interested in small town to big city transitions
• [01:47] – Tristan’s expertise is in helping people make their big dreams come true
  • [02:28] – Tristan is after human potential, motivation and behavior
• [02:53] – “Everything we do in life is based upon our momentary decision making”
  • [03:40] – People put too much pleasure into momentary things instead of the long-term goal
  • [03:53] – If we associate more pain to NOT achieving our long-term goals, we’d be more able to achieve them
• [04:43] – Worst Entrepreneurial Moment: Tristan has been in the business for 2.5 years
  • [05:08] – 5 or 6 years ago, Tristan met a boy at a hospital whose father was in a coma
  • [05:22] – Each day, the boy would hope that his father would wake up despite the nurses telling him the opposite
  • [05:30] – That boy is Tristan
  • [05:43] – From that point on, Tristan thought of people as having a purpose
  • [06:23] – It’s in those moments of pain where you discover your purpose
• [07:27] – Understand those painful situations, step back and appreciate it
• [07:54] – Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment: The moment happened when Tristan was living in a homeless shelter
  • [08:23] – Tristan learned that no matter how small you are, you can leave a mark on someone’s life
  • [09:10] – “Always be concerned about how much potential and how big you really are inside”
• [09:48] – “Always understand that you’re bigger than the things that are trying to come after you”
• [10:14] – What is the one thing you are most FIRED up about today? “Just being able to get up and live another day”
  • [10:38] – Tristan talks about his friend who is battling cancer
  • [11:07] – Every single moment shared is very important and gratitude is what can keep us going
• [13:10] – The Lightning Round
  • What was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur? – “My age”
  • What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care”
  • What’s a personal habit that contributes to your success? – Tristan is organized and the biggest thing for him is planning
  • Share an internet resource, like Evernote, with Fire Nation – Google Trends
  • If you could recommend one book to our listeners, what would it be and why? – Sam Walton’s Made in America
• [17:38] – “You can’t build a reputation based upon what you say you’re going to do”
• [17:58] – Find Tristan on his website

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