"Get into something." - Robert Di Lisi

Insight From an Inspiring Difference-Maker

Insight and inspiration for flying higher in the difference only you can make from guests who have appeared on Creative on Purpose Live.

This week’s wisdom comes from a conversation with Robert Di Lisis, founder of Stonegate Legal Service. Tune into the entire conversation here.

[SCOTT] So, if you just have one final tip for our audience.

[ROBERT] I have to say first you have to, you have to follow Scott, that's number one, all right, that's number one.

Number two is even if you don't know what your purpose is, get into something. That might sound crazy. By starting something, you'll fail at it, but you might learn from it to do something else.

So I will tell you that, yes, my office is doing extremely well, but there's a quote that someone once told me that it took 20 years to become an overnight success, and I will tell you it's true. It took me 20 - 25 years to get to where I am by failing. Going to courses, the gurus, all this other crap that I've digested and finding people like you, and I'm going to give another shout-out to Laurel because she is a breath of fresh air when it comes to Facebook advertising, and it's true.

It took me 25 years of learning systems. That's going to be an important thing that I always tell people, develop your system's consistency and just be around good people who have the same goals as you.

[SCOTT] That's super fantastic. It's so interesting that you led with purpose because yesterday, in our Substack subscriber community, we actually had an hour-long discussion around the paths to purpose, and one of them was to just do the things you're already doing purposefully. If you're looking for purpose, purpose is not 'out there.' It's something that emerges naturally from just bringing purpose to the things that you're already doing. So, just phenomenal that you underlined that for us.

[ROBERT] Can I add something? Do you mind?

[SCOTT] Oh, absolutely. Go ahead.

[ROBERT] So, I grew up in an Italian household, and when we failed, my dad would yell at us, 'Ah, you did bad.' Later on in life, I learned failing is not bad as long as you fail forward and you learn.

I saw another quote, and I don't know if I'm going to say this right, every time you fail, you're not starting all over again you're starting with experience, and that is great because I have failed hundreds and hundreds of times and each time you learn something and you progress forward.

That's the purpose of life keep progressing.

[SCOTT] Absolutely.

Robert just delivered an important reminder about the importance and value of embracing failure in purposeful pursuits. How can you dance with failure as you get your endeavor going?

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