A New Mission and Why We Are Keeping the Wrong Score [6/13/08]

hey everybody it's Gary vaynerchuk and uh this is my 120 remember that you know 120 seconds of my thoughts I want to talk to you guys about uh what I've been giving a lot of thought to I just went on this amazing twoe trip and I hit me exactly what I'm about what I want to accomplish and uh I'm hoping you could take a little snippet from this and realize the power in it I've come to realize through my two-e journey of 10 flights over 12 days and through my interactions and my overwhelmingness of emails and interaction that I've come to realize it's the way I score life that is giving me this competitive advantage and bringing me all this happiness and let me break it down to what I mean is it's not about how many viewers you have or the analytics or the click-throughs or the ctrs or cpms or all that crap and it's really not about your bank account either it's about the connections you make with humans it's why you guys are all watching this video in the first place this internet's thing is connecting us in a way that's never been connected before and so what I realized is I'm not collecting monies or baseball cards anymore I'm collecting relationships and that is my mission my new mission in life and I know it's not scalable but I'm going to fight like heck like everything else is to meet every single person on Earth silly yes my goal yes I think what people realize is and what I've always realized and I think I hope you can come to realize is when you're laying on your deathbed and I hate to get that Grim but this is how I live my life when you're laying on your deathbed I just don't think you're going to care about the dollars and cents in your bank account or what you're leaving in your will it's going to be about the memories right and I don't think it's about the memories of you on your yacht with like six models whether they're male or female right popping Crystal I don't I think it's going to be out the genuine connections you've made through your life and though it may even be for a minute or two when I go to a wine bar like Corkscrew in Texas or when I do something at seed conference and talk to everybody afterwards it's not about anything other than that minute or two of quality time and you can have it in a minute or two that is really driving me the rooting for the other people that come to me and saying I love what you're doing I'm gonna do this the sand castle guy the lawyer that I just talked to that wants to be America's lawyer the Doctor Phil rooting for those people touching those people meeting those people I think is imperative and so my new mission in life is to meet every single person I can and spend a minute or two and the new way I am going to count score in life is going to be about personal connections not about the decimal points in my bank account have a great day