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Don’t Be Afraid When People Copy You

Today I want to talk to you about this quote that I love and I think it’s a great quote for entrepreneurs, but also a great quote for everybody. And I don’t remember who said it or where I saw it. I tried looking it up, but I couldn’t quite find who said it or where I saw it. The quote is “Don’t be afraid when people copy you, be afraid when they stop” I think that’s such a powerful quote. Because often times we’re thinking we don’t want anybody to copy us. We get upset when people copy us. We get offended if people copy us. But really, I think and especially after seeing that quote, which kind of changed my mindset is people copying us could be one of the biggest compliments. That means you’re doing something right. That means you’re doing something that they like.

So a great example is Nintendo. I love Nintendo. So when I was a kid, Nintendo was the gold standard of video games. Everybody wanted to copy them so much. So much so when Nintendo created a failure, which was called the Virtual Boy, which had virtual reality goggles. It had red and black graphics for whatever reason. Nobody knows why lol And it was not a great system, but you know what another company ended up copying it. And that device may have been even worse than the Virtual Boy.

So see, that’s how you know you’re doing something right. If people start copying you even your bad ideas. So and then when Nintendo went into like the Nintendo 64 and the Game Cube and they had great games, I loved their games, but people stopped copying them because they stopped innovating. And then the Wii came out and then again everybody wanted a part of that Sony, Microsoft, everybody wanted a part of that motion control thing because the Wii was just so popular.

So that just goes to show that if you have a great idea that other people copying you is really the biggest compliment and it’s not something we should get offended of, sometimes we get offended of and sometimes I’ve done this is when someone copies your inspirational quotes or something you said and doesn’t give you give you credit. It can make you not feel that great because you feel you deserve credit. But when someone is copying you really is such a great compliment. And it’s just something that I really has changed my mindset and think it’s a great one for entrepreneurs and a great one for everybody else, just in case someone ends up copying any one of us, because it means that if somebody liked it and if somebody liked it, that means we’re doing something right.

And it is really it really is a compliment telling you that whatever you’re doing is training. You learn how to innovate by growing, by learning, by learning new stuff, by educating yourself. And when you do that, other people are going to look up to you. People may copy you, but it’s good to change your mindset in that and realize that it’s actually a really, really great compliment.

“Don’t be afraid when people copy you, be afraid when they stop” – Unknown

Short about me: My name is Brent Hosaka and I am a Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle Coach from Hawaii. if you want to read my full story you can click here.

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Everyone Has Luck

Today we’re going to talk to you all about luck. There is this misperception that in order to be successful, you have to be lucky. And anybody who is successful or became a millionaire or successful in what they do, they were just really lucky. While, in a way, they may be right because they had to be presented the right opportunities and they had to take advantage of the opportunities.

I feel that every single person is presented with those opportunities it’s just what separates the successful ones to the unsuccessful ones are the ones who are complaining or is simply just taking advantage of those opportunities. Here’s the deal those opportunities can be presented in various ways. It can be presented in meeting up with a friend, it could be presented in going to a party. It could be presented in a gut feeling like what do you feel in your gut. It could be presented in an idea. You have a great idea, but a lot of people tend to not act upon that idea. And that could be the opportunity given to you when you’re first born, or given to you right then, given to you by the universe, you know, so that is part of the opportunity, I think, that we’re given.

We all have dreams, we all ask for things. When we ask for things, it’s not just given to us. Whatever we ask for. It’s given to us in terms and forms of opportunity. So we have to really keep our eyes out for these opportunities. And also, trust our gut because I think that’s the Universe or that’s God telling us like trying to steering us in the right direction on what to do. So when you see those opportunities, it’s just this gut feeling that you feel that you should be doing that or you should be acting upon an idea or whatever it happens to be, are going to that dinner or going to that party. It’s just this gut feeling that you have in yourself. So you definitely want to keep your eyes out for those opportunities, because that is what in my opinion is a form of luck. And when you seized those opportunities and you take action upon it, then in a way you create your own luck and also in forms of creating your own luck.

There’s another quote I think was Thomas Edison, if I remember correctly, where he says, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” That is also true. You can also create your own luck, and that is also a different form of opportunity as well as I feel. Because when you work hard, you create your own luck, your create own opportunity, instead of just waiting for that opportunity to come to you. And sometimes that’s how successful people work and sometimes they are presented various opportunities and they take advantage of it. Whatever happens to be.

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Don’t Care What Others Think

A couple weeks ago I went to see and hang out with some of my family members and a couple of us were talking about how back in high school a lot of people didn’t wear tank tops because it wasn’t considered cool and we used to wear our shorts below our knees and now it’s kind of all over the place. People wear tanktops, Men are wearing shorts that are above the knee. We were kind of talking about this and we’re like, why is that? Well, one of the things is times change, fashion changes, the style changes. But I also feel another is which that as we get older, we start to not care what other people think of us. In high school it’s all about what people think about us.

In fact, I was watching another video where he was talking about like video games and how backward we were in high school. Playing video games was kind of considered a little kids thing. And some people they would purposely stopped a habit they liked because they didn’t want to seem uncool to their friends. And now we start thinking, that’s kind of silly, because personally, I’ve never stopped playing video games, I always really enjoyed it. But now the more he started explaining about this, I started thinking I was kind of like that.

I never stopped playing video games, I really only talked about the cool games that was out like Grand Theft Auto or Time Splitters. That was a couple examples of some games that I would talk about because was cool, but we didn’t talk about like I played Mario Party when I was in high school and I had fun with that. I played Mario all the time when I was in high school and I had fun with that. So it was really about what people thought of us and we were so concerned about what others thought of us back then, and as we get older, that kind of like kind of vanished a little bit.

Now, in the end, we still do kind of care what other people think of us. Like, for example, I’m sure the ones with kids care what your kids think about you. And that’s completely fine. It’s completely normal. But in terms of like the outside, outside of your kids. Or maybe outside of your significant other. It really doesn’t make any sense to care what other people think about us, because in a way that holds us back and that prevents us from being us, that prevents us from being who we are. And it’s a lesson. And I won’t say that its easy, because the truth is being judged and knowing that you’re being judged is not easy and that is completely fine, but once you’re able to break through that barriers of others, just not caring what others think about you.

You want to be weird and start your own business, that’s considered weird to a lot of a lot of people and on to his family. Go ahead and do that. Will you be judged? Absolutely. But guess what, you won’t live your life without any regret? Because if you’ve always thought about you want to be an entrepreneur or you want to pursue a certain career. You’re going to have a lot of regrets in the end. So we’re on this earth for a very short time period, so might as well do what you love on this earth. Make the impact that you want to make, that you feel that you’re brought on this earth to do, because otherwise you’re going to you’re going to face regret and also you probably will eventually not be very happy, not be very happy that you just decided to work a job because other people are doing it or it was a high paying job or whatever it happens to be.

I watching this movie called “Up In The Air” where George Clooney was talking to JK Simmons and he was just telling him that he loves to cook. Why did he give that up? How much did his current job pay him to give up that dream? And he said, $30,000.

They paid him $30,000 a year to give up a dream he always loved, and the truth is a lot of us had to go down that route as we get older. I don’t know why maybe its because people brainwash us into thinking that we need to be realistic on our goals, that we need to set attainable goals. Now, I’m not saying that your goal should be so high that nobody can that even you don’t think you can reach it. Absolutely not. You should not set a goal that you don’t think you can reach. You should set a goal that you believe that you can reach and that you want to reach and that will make you happy and that you won’t face any regrets in the end. So the main point I want to get out of this is do things for you, do things for your family. Don’t care about what other people think, because the truth is it doesn’t matter what you do, someone’s always going to be there to judge you. So might as well be judged doing something that you love.

Short about me: My name is Brent Hosaka and I am a Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle Coach from Hawaii. if you want to read my full story you can click here.

Overlooked Inspirational Movies

I wanted to talk about some of my favorite inspirational movies that were kind of unappreciated and didn’t get much love when it first came out. So the first movie that I want to talk about is called “That’s What I Am”.

“That’s What I Am” would technically be considered like an anti-bullying film but is one of those inspirational movies that conveys its message in a different way than saying bullying is bad. It’s about this kid named Andy, played by Chase Ellison, who gets assigned to a project with Big G played by Alexander Walters. And Big G has been a kid who’s always been bullied in school. And originally Andy didn’t understand that and without giving too much away, he really starts to understand Big G and who he is. Hence the title “That’s What I Am”.

It’s about being yourself and embracing who you are and there’s a rumor going around school about a teacher played by Ed Harris, and I’m not going to spoil what the rumor is, but it caused a lot of controversy around the school. And it ends up being such a great coming of age story with a lot of heart and a great message in it. I highly recommend it.

The next movie that I’d like to recommend is called “The Ultimate Gift”. This movie is based on a very popular book and it stars James Gardner, Bill Cobbs, Drew Fuller and a very young Abigail Breslin. The movie is about a billionaire who dies and he gives his life’s fortune to his grandson but before his grandson can receive that money, he has to do a series of tasks before he can receive what he calls the ultimate gift. It is a great coming of age story where he learns a lot of lessons in the end, and I do highly recommend it. It has a lot of great lessons in it and I think you’ll like it.

The next movie on my list is called “McFarland USA“. Now this one I feel is one of the rare Disney movies that went very overlooked and very underappreciated. This movie is based on a true story. It stars Kevin Costner as Jim White as he moves to McFarland California to become an assistant football coach. Now while there he starts to realize that a lot of his students and a lot of the students at that school have a lot of potential to start a cross-country team and he learns a lot of lessons well over there. He also learns the appreciation and how easy a lot of people tend to have it and how hard these kids are working every single day, not just at school, but also at home and helping their families at such a young age.

This is a fun, heartfelt drama and I think a lot of you will like it. It does fall into the cliches a little bit in a lot of these inspirational sports dramas based on a true story. But it is still worth a watch, I think. And I think a lot of you will like it especially like sports movies. And also without spoiling it, there’s one part in this movie that every single time I watch it, I get goosebumps. It is so well done.

Now, the last of my favorite inspirational movies that I want to recommend on this list is called “Fighting with My Family”. “Fighting With My Family” came out in 2019 and it’s about the life story of WWE diva Paige. This movie stars Florence Pugh as Paige, Lena Headey and Nick Frost as her parents and also stars The Rock as himself. This is a really fascinating story as Paige, her brother and her parents have been wrestling in the UK for most of Paige’s life. And finally, her and her brother get a shot to try out for the WWE.

And this isn’t a spoiler, it was shown in the trailer, she gets in and her brother does not. So it causes this entire family drama and is very interesting. But not only that, this movie is also very, very funny. In fact, one of the funniest movies that it probably saw last year. And I think whether you’re a wrestling fan or not, there is a lot of fun to be had in this movie and also a lot of inspiration as The Rock in the only way The Rock can do is how he sprout’s inspiration during a scene.

So to recap, I recommend it. That’s What I Am. McFarland USA, Fighting With My Family, and The Ultimate Gift. I hope you all can check it out and I hope you enjoy these inspirational movies as much as I did

Short about me: My name is Brent Hosaka and I am a Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle Coach from Hawaii. if you want to read my full story you can click here.

Take Control of Your Life

Do you know why a lot of people don’t like roller coasters, are afraid to ride roller coasters? It’s because of the lack of control. When you ride a rollercoaster, the control is completely out of your hands and for some it can get a little bit scary. The good thing is life is not like a rollercoaster, sometimes may feel like a rollercoaster, but it’s not like a rollercoaster in terms that we have control over the outcome in our life.

And I don’t mean to sound a little bit. You know, but the life we are living right now, we created it, we created the situation that we’re currently in right now, but the great thing is unlike a rollercoaster. We have control. We have control over the outcome of our lives and we have control where we’re going to go him from here on out.

So I like to compare this to acting and it’s obviously not a bad way is to go on as many auditions as you possibly can, craft your ability and continue to work to get better and better and better. But there are other ways nowadays that we can get into the acting industry.

And some have gotten into industries that otherwise would not have given them a chance by, you know, like uploading videos on YouTube or uploading a video on Instagram and others, Tiktok, and that’s how they get a little bit of exposure.

There’s this movie called “The Room”. Some of you may have heard of it now “The Room” has kind of became a cult classic and the writer and the director and I think the producer as well of “The Room”, Tommy Wiseau, kept on going on auditions and they kept on rejecting him. So one day, he went to his friend, Greg and said, “You know what? I’m getting rejected. I’m tired of getting rejected. I’m going to just make my own movie. I’m going to write it. And I’m a director. I’m going to produce it.” And that’s what he did.

Now, here’s the deal. “The Room” out and end up being considered one of the worst movies of all time, but it had a cult classic in terms of people were just so fascinated and, you know, Tommy Wiseau himself and the other actors and the script and the way the movie is made, that it became a movie that even if it’s bad, people just can’t help but not watch. It’s kind of fascinating. And now they made a movie out of it called The Disaster Artist. And he was in that movie. He made a short cameo in that movie. And you could say what you want about it, but I respect him for taking action and for just doing something to get him to that industry that was rejecting him so much.

So the point in me sharing that story is that the great thing is, in our lives we have control, we have control over what we do, how we react, we have control over the results we get, how much work that we’re putting into, the skills that we learn, and decide to learn and every skill is essentially learnable if we put enough time and effort into it and from here on out, you can change your life, and once you realize that you have 100 percent control of your life, nothing can stop you. Nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams and goals.

The main thing point is that it’s your life and it’s time for us to take control of our lives. And that’s what I’m going to start doing that because it’s always I’ve always known about this, but it hasn’t really set in for me until just recently.

You also want to expand your mindset by educating yourself and whatever field that you want to educate yourself before. Taking the time to read a blog, time to expand your skills and in turn that people will see you as more valuable to the marketplace or whatever that you want to become.

Short about me: My name is Brent Hosaka and I am a Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle Coach from Hawaii. if you want to read my full story you can click here.

Karate Kid is one of my favorite movies and it also happens to be a movie with so many great life lessons in it. The movie is kind of feels like a Personal Development movie so today I wanted to talk about some of the lessons that I have learned in Karate Kid.

Everyone can use a good mentor. Mr. Miyagi famously said There is no such thing as bad student only bad teacher. And that is true, teacher say, student do. Mr. Miyagi was an example of great teacher. Even when Daniel started to get distracted or frustrated Mr. Miyagi was able to get him focused back again. We can all use a mentor and teacher who will helps us with that in our lives.
Either you do or you don’t. There was another great quote by Mr. Miyagi where he said Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do “yes”, or karate do “no”. You karate do “guess so”, [makes squish gesture] just like grape.” I see this quote as being about commitment, Mr. Miyagi wants to know if Daniel is committed about learning Karate because if he isn’t this isn’t going to work. Same thing for everything we do in our lives. We need to committed to learn something or do something or its not going to work.
Take it one step at a time. At the scene of the beach, Daniel sees Mr. Miyagi doing the crane so he asks him if he could teach it to him, he tells him he isn’t ready and says “First learn stand, then learn fly” Basically what this means is take it one step at a time. Don’t attempt anything you are not quite ready for. Kind of like if you were playing a video game and you beat level 1 and decided to skip to the final level, would you succeed, probably not. Same thing with life, take everything one step at a time.
Don’t fear fear. This one is actually from the 3^rd one but I think it’s a great lesson. In the final fight, Daniel is hurting a lot and goes crying to Mr. Miyagi that he can’t do it and wants to quit. Miyagi tells him “Its ok to lose to opponent but must not lose to fear” In others words its ok to fail or lose but its not ok to fail just because you were afraid to do it. Because if you try and do your best, at least you’ll know and have no regrets.

How To Overcome Fear

So a couple nights ago I watched the new Goosebumps movie, I had to watch it especially since I was a big fan of the books and TV show as a kid. Not only did I find the movie quite enjoyable it also gave me an idea for the video this week. This week’s video will be about how to overcome fear. It’s kind of funny really, alot of people like to be scared that’s why horror movies make a lot of money but don’t like to do things they are uncomfortable with or face their fears. Of course technically Horror movies are all make believe, fantasy, and in the end it is all the imagination of the writer, director, and the rest of the crew. And that is the same for most of the “Fear” in our lives or False Evidence Appearing Real. So in the end Fear is all in your mind, and that’s why alot of successful people aren’t the smartest people, they are just people who don’t overthink the situation. So you can know all this stuff about fear and know its all in the mind and still have trouble overcoming it, so that’s why I compiled a list of things that I do to overcome fear

1. Think about what you are afraid to do and think about what is the worst that could happen. Write it down if you have to. Whether its talking to new people, getting new customers, asking someone out on a date, whats the worst that could happen? You could get rejected, yup. You could embarrass yourself but guess what you are still alive, amd well and at least you did your best and tomorrow is another day

2. Overcoming your fear with a friend or a partner. Now of course there are some fears that can’t overcome with a friend or a partner but there are definitely some that you can and believe me it is a lot easier when you have someone to do this with. I’ve overcame some fears with friends and I will continue to do so.

3. Just do it! It’s like a band aid right, you can either rip off very slowly which will probably be pretty painful or you can rip off and get it over real quick. And once you do it, you’ll realize hey it wasn’t that bad but the longer you wait, the worse it’s going to be. And the quicker you do it, you less your mind has time to think about the situation its in.

Choosing Who You Want To Be

I just saw the new Jumanji movie and I gotta say it was really really good. It also had a surprising lesson that I thought was perfect for the new year. Only thing is, I hope it is not a spoiler, well just in case I’m going to give a minor spoiler warning. Choosing who you want to be is a great step in life.

So as you may know in the movie Jumanji the board game turns into a video game and the players that play the game get sucked into the video game world and become the avatars they choose. The nerdy kid becomes The Rock, the shy girl becomes Karen Gillian, the big jock becomes Kevin Hart, and the attractive instagram teenage girl becomes Jack Black. Since this movie takes place in a video game, I’m going to focus on one lesson that I got out of it.

You see in all video games we get to choose our character and most of the time the character is buff or very attractive, very fit characters and a cliché in video games is that the main character is normally the best at something. And it is easy to be brave when the worst that could is a game over screen but yes in real life, we do have just one life but that’s why we have to make it the best life possible. And yes in video games you get to choose your character but in real life we get to choose our characters as well. You want to be buff or be fit, find someone who is at your goals and ask them how they did it and take good notes and repeat their plan, you might find other things that work better for you along the way but it’s a good start. You want to be brave, face your fears.

I just put out a video a couple days ago where a woman for 100 straight days faced her fears. There are maybe some things that we don’t have control over like our race, our height but we have complete control over who we decide to become right now. Every single day we are faced with choices, so pick your character, who do you want to be? The choice is yours.

Late Bloomers

A lot of people in their 30s or 40s and think that they still can’t be and do what they always wanted to do but that is not always true, in most careers it is not. So I’m going to list some very successful people who found their calling late in life, late bloomers. As George Elliot once said it is never too late to become who you might have been.

1. Gabe Newell, If you are a gamer, you probably know who he is but if you are not Gabe Newell is one of the founders of Valve at the age of 34 and would later on create the video game Half-Life and at the age of 41 he and his team would create a software called Steam which would go onto change PC gaming forever.

2. Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman didn’t appear in a movie until 1971 when he was 34 and didn’t have a big role until 1989 when he appeared in the movie Driving Miss Daisy when he was 52

3. Stan Lee, Stan Lee is mostly known for his work at Marvel but before he used to write stories in a variety of genres. In his late 30’s, he was thinking of finding a new career but his boss assigned him to create a new superhero team and he then create The Fantastic Four. Of course as the rest is history as he would go on to create X-Men, The Hulk, and Spiderman.

4. Colonel Sanders, Colonel Sanders of course mostly known for the very popular KFC fast food chain didn’t become a professional chef until he was 40 and it wasn’t until 62 when he started KFC. He then sold KFC for 2 million dollars in 1964 when he was 74.

5. Grandma Moses, Here is a crazy one! Grandma Moses who is known for these incredible paintings didn’t even start painting until she was in her 70s. Now why she started painting all of a sudden, I have no idea but man what an inspiration!

What We Can Learn From Dogs

Dogs, I am a huge dog lover!! I don’t love them just because they are so gosh darn adorable, I mean they are adorable. But I love how they make me feel when I when I see them and play them and I also feel they can teach us a lot of things about life. So I’m going to talk about what we can learn from dogs

1. Live in the now. If you notice, dogs tend to not hold onto what happened
yesterday or what may happen in the future. They live in the moment.

2. Keep trying until you succeed. If you notice, if a dog wants something or
they want to do something, they keep on trying until they succeed. No matter how much times they fail. They eventually find a way. And you find great examples of this on youtube.

3. Forgive. Dogs tend to not hold onto grudges for too long. They forgive,
forget, and move on fairly quickly

4. Love Unconditionaly. Dogs love their family more than they love themselvesThey get so excited, wag their tail, and get so excited when they see you.