Doctors Gave Him 6 Months to Live. He Said “Watch This” with Tom LeNoble

And there's so much to learn, I think, from your resilience and the fact that you are still here and the things you've been able to learn and do in your career and life.

And so I like to kick things off by asking everyone the same question.

And you've worked with a lot of entrepreneurs, including some of, obviously, the world's best.

How do you define entrepreneurial excellence? What does that mean

to you? You know, for me, entrepreneurial excellence is very basic.

I think that's having a mindset that whatever didn't work today, whatever didn't get done today, whatever challenge happened today is nothing more than a stepping stone to tomorrow and start fresh the next day.

Some of us have these long to-do lists, and I've learned that if you didn't get the to-dos done today, you're going to have a new list tomorrow.

So do your best, keep going, and not hang out in the past.

So many people I talk with are hanging out in the past as if we get a do-over, as if we're like those videos we watch on our phones where we have go-back-10-second button.

Life isn't that way.

Be here in the present.

Do the best you can.

Tomorrow's a new chance at it.

That is such a great definition.

And I agree with you.

I mean, look, I live in San Francisco, so I see a lot of people I hang out with that probably are looking forward.

But I think a lot of people in life really do look to the past or obsess about why something went wrong or where they could have fixed it.

And certainly for me as an entrepreneur, I always am thinking, of the next big thing.

It's funny, I'm sure you hear lots of people say, if you have a call on a Friday, people say, oh, happy Friday, things like that.

And I always say, no, like Fridays are depressing for me because there's so much I didn't get done.

Whereas on Monday, it's a fresh slate.

I can do so much on Monday, anything is possible.

And I think most people find that really weird.

And I do not say that I'm a great entrepreneur, but I feel like that's a helpful definition for me, like maybe the way you defined it.

Like, I start Mondays, but anything's possible this week.