One Shoe Doesn't Fit All! [1/5/09]

hey guys it's Gary vaynerchuk uh on garyvaynerchuk. com I haven't done one of these videos in a long time so happy Holidays happy New Year um really pumped for 2009 everybody's crying about the economy and advertisers and all this and the bottom line is you know what puts your head down and crush it there will be plenty of opportunities in 2009 this is not the Great Depression my friends go find somebody old talk to them it's not um what I want to talk to you guys about today um and I want to get really into this and this has been you know the situation of reading my emails over the holidays I've realized something getting a lot of attention I'm speaking at a lot of places um and I'm excited about that and if you want me to speak in your conference or anything like that just send me a link to uh over here on the side of the video um and I realized there's something really interesting which is this one shoe doesn't fit everybody you understand M it's kind of like wine it's like you know here's my Shoe Right M can you fit in this maybe you can maybe you can't but most importantly it's like wine right I like this wine you don't I like White Castle burgers you don't so if we've already established that flavors tastes Styles art with music and all that sports teams I'm a Jets fan you might not be if we've established that we have different flavors why in the world do we have to have one or two or five systems to do business that is a big problem and I'm really tired of people asking me this dear Gary can you give me five things I should do to start my company what are three tricks that you did to build Wine Library what are seven ways you built up your Twitter list what are nine things I should do for my brand here's what you should do you should listen to one person in the world yourself the intuition listening that we are doing as human beings on a business level is atrocious people look at Stats people look at other people's methods and they try to do that nothing would make me happier in the world that if you never watched another garyvaynerchuk. com video and you listened to yourself because I promise you I don't listen to anybody not a soul will I look at certain metrics absolutely but if my gut tells me that those metrics are wrong or there's a hole in those metrics then there's a whole in those metrics do you understand you know exactly what you need to do to build your business or follow your passion or build your family or your house what you know what to do the problem is you're not listening to yourself you're listening to a million people and you're not listening to yourself the only thing you should be listening to is yourself because nobody's system works better than your own your system for you is what works so if you need to wear a tie to get a job and that's not you then you don't need to get that job and if you work better from 2:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the morning then work then do you understand stop trying to make other people's shoes fit on your foot execute what you believe in do not listen to anybody but yourself we all wear very different shoes it's simple it's repackaged from the things that I say before but it needs to be said again because way too many of you are reading your art press's and you're reading different blogs and you're reading all these books and you're going to all these conferences and you're writing down all these things and you know what you're listening to everybody else but yourself