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Hey guys, welcome back to the Homework Assignment podcast.

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Wanted to, I had something transpired this week and I wanted to get on here and basically

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just kind of dump my mind on some of the things that have been going through it and kind of

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give my take on some of my feelings currently.

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Obviously, you guys know that this is a podcast for business and entrepreneurship and with

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that being said, business and entrepreneurship would not be business and entrepreneurship

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without the struggles of real life just like anybody else's career or job.

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And it's a lot of times really hard to control, balance, organize those two, those two key

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components and that's what this podcast is all about.

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And so I recently got some news yesterday that somebody I care for very closely has

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stage four cancer and I had taken three, four hours probably just staring at a wall and

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kind of contemplating, you know, I was told on the next steps and all this kind of stuff.

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But one of the things that stuck with me was he let me know that no matter what happened,

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he had felt that his work was, he felt like he may have completed his work in this life

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so far and he's a good age and he's very healthy.

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And obviously, so this was, you know, an unexpected like for most people, it's unexpected.

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And him telling me that got me thinking about all the things that we worry about.

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Obviously, I mean, you guys can imagine any kind of news like this, whether you're getting

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yourself or someone you love gets it, it kind of puts everything into perspective.

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And the perspective I had was when I was talking to him and he's telling me this and then he

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told me that, you know, it was something I really didn't know.

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I wanted to hear.

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But it definitely brought me some comfort because, you know, he he began to talk.

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He's I would say we're very much alike.

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He's a hustler.

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He's a business owner.

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He's very driven.

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And we've always had that in common.

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And he had brought that up.

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And, you know, it got me thinking about this victim culture and this victim society that

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we currently are living in.

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I know there's a ton of things going on where there's, you know, a lot of people talk about

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this, a lot of people are fighting against it and just, you know, raising that warning

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voice of like, hey, we cannot be like this.

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And that's just kind of what was going through my head last night.

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You know, I do believe that I try my hardest when I come into work.

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I, you know, if I don't show up, things don't happen.

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People don't get paid.

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It like if there's major consequences when I show up to a day of work and I am not putting

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in 120% and something I know about this man is he was always given 120%.

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And I believe the efforts that he put in his life, the efforts he put in his personal life

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and his business life have led him to have that feeling that, hey, maybe I'm complete.

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Maybe everything I've done here is, is enough.

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Maybe my work is over.

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Maybe it's time for me to move on.

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And how many of us can actually say that?

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How many of us today, no matter the age, can sit back and actually put that scenario into

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place of receiving a news that, hey, your life may be coming to a complete stop.

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How many of us would actually feel like, you know what?

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I'm okay with that.

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I'm okay with it because I did everything I wanted to.

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I completed and reached all my goals.

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I don't think many of us can say that.

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And I don't think that was his initial viewpoint because I know he has goals.

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I know he was always growing his business.

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He was always growing his family and, you know, he had plenty of stuff he wanted to go

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do.

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But when he got the news, that was something that crossed his mind.

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How many of us are actually living every day to our fullest?

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Now that doesn't mean you need to go and you need to just, you know, oh, I'm going to liquidate

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my company, liquidate my mortgage and just go live my, you know, live a life so I can

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have no regrets.

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That's not what this is about.

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As human beings, we need accomplishments.

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If you guys have ever read that book or heard of that book, it's called Something About

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Making Your Bed.

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It's written by a man in the military.

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I can't think of the exact title, but I think you guys know what I'm talking about.

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And you know, he said his report or his book is about that first thing that he did when

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he woke up was make his bed and how that began a day of winnings.

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That began his day off successful, right?

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And so that was a part of him living that day to the absolute fullest.

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And how many of us are actually doing that?

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Are you doing that?

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Am I doing that?

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Are we coming to work and putting, leaving everything on the field?

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Are we going home and spending time with our families and leaving everything on the field?

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I use that term because I was in football.

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My coach, our coaches would always say, which I'm sure many of you have heard is, hey, leave

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everything on the field.

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So when the game ends, you walk off and you are drained emotionally, mentally and physically.

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And I know there's days that I don't do that.

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And I know there's days that I do.

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And just getting this news and, you know, processing it, it makes me feel like there's

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so much more that can be done.

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And I'm not talking about paperwork, I'm not talking about, you know, anything super specific

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in that sense.

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I'm talking about that everything you do, you're giving 110%, right?

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We talk about in business, you know, when you are doing something intentionally, are

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you giving 100%, right?

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If you are currently, you have big dreams and you're working at McDonald's and you're

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at the drive through, even though it's not a job you want, are you giving it?

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Absolutely everything.

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Are you trying to reach your full potential, whether that potential is built for the pressure

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of entrepreneurship, whether that potential is built for the pressure of entrepreneurship

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or whether that potential is built for being a general manager of McDonald's?

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Because there's nothing wrong with that.

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Everybody's different.

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But the important thing is being able to give your all no matter what the circumstances,

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the situations and truly having a sense of a care of wanting to become better, of self-development,

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right?

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I see the world, I see society, I see Instagram and, you know, Facebook and all these things

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of all these people, you know, those memes like, here's how to maximize your days off,

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here's how to, you know, get a few extra bucks, you know, whatever the case is.

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And everybody's looking for that easy win, the getting something in return for absolutely

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nothing, right?

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And so when something happens, it's poor me, you know what, I should, you know, I should

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be getting this, I should be treated like this because of this situation.

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You know, and all of that leads to laziness leads to entitlement that people don't deserve.

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It leads to all these negative things that have a huge impact on people's lives.

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And I bring up the difference between entrepreneurship or like working at McDonald's is because like

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I said, everybody's different, whether you are me and can handle the high intense pressure

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that entrepreneurship has and constantly want to hit our hit my goals, or you're someone

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who just wants a comfortable life, meaning, hey, you're not going to be a billionaire,

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but you just want to be comfortable, which is totally fine.

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The important fact here is that no matter who you are, where you are, what you do, the

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integrity that you should have with yourself is that you are going to give 110% and give

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all of yourself into what you are doing.

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Whether you want to be there, whether it's what you want to do, it doesn't matter.

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That is what being true to yourself is all about.

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That is what's going to make this world a better place.

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And that's all I could think about last night.

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That's all I could think about was the potential, the lack of effort, the victim mindset of,

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you know, I was sitting there and I've never lost anybody that I have loved like family

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wise.

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I've lost some friends, but nobody that I would consider like my father or my mother

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or a brother or sister, I've been very lucky in that sense.

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And so, of course, when I got this news, I'm thinking of like, well, how much time, what's

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this going to mean, what's going to happen when he is gone, you know, and I sat there

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for four hours staring at a wall.

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And I realized that this is one of those situations that I talk about, that I teach

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about all the time and harnessing the emotion of a negative event and turning it into something

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good.

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Because I know for a fact, when he was delivering me that news, he knew how I was going to fill,

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he knew how much I loved him, but I guarantee he does not want me moping around and feeling

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sorry for myself because that has nothing to do with me.

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And most of the time, I think when people pass away, people that we love, they want

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the best for us.

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They want us to move forward.

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They want us to, you know, be able to make something of ourselves to progress.

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And I had that decision last night to be torn up about this for weeks, months, whatever,

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whatever I felt like I needed to feel that pain, or I could take it in, understand the

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situation, process the emotional pain I was feeling, the mental, get some mental clarity,

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and then understand, okay, take this energy, harness it, use it to my advantage, be there

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for him, enjoy the time with him, love him, spend more time with him, and keep on moving

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forward.

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And when the time comes where he does have to leave me, I'm going to do that system all

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over again.

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Now faith plays a big part into this certain situation.

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So no matter what faith you have, everybody, whether you believe in an afterlife or not,

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obviously that has a big part to do with a lot of timeframe on your emotional pain or

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how you do feel things.

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But for me, it was a great moment to practice what I believe to be true.

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And that is, you know, harnessing that emotional, that emotional power that comes with any emotion,

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whether it's a negative emotion or a positive emotion, using it to my advantage and not

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being a victim and saying, you know what, poor me.

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So and so, this is happening.

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And I'm going to sit here, I'm going to be sad.

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And I'm going to just, if anybody gets upset because I'm lacking in production, I'm lacking

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in effort, I have this excuse.

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And I've had plenty of excuses my whole life with two drug addicts of parents, not having

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a family, you know, being homeless.

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I mean, I've been through quite a bit of things that, you know, I did watch Effect Me for

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a long time and it shouldn't have.

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And so that's just what I wanted to share.

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Just kind of, you know, a little bit of a brain dump on this whole victim mindset and

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a winning mindset and being able to harness emotional or negative situations and use them

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to your advantage.

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I will tell you that being able to do this has progressed me forward in every aspect of

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my life, whether it's business or personal, in my faith, my mental, everything.

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Being able to not let things take more time and energy than is needed.

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And that can be placed in this situation, that can be placed with someone who's treating

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you poorly or doing something to hurt you, whether it's directly or indirectly.

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I mean, this goes into every situation.

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Imagine how much time is lost to feeling that victim mindset and allowing yourself to

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mope, to cry, to, you know, just let it affect you for more time than you should.

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I'm not saying you shouldn't feel emotion.

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I felt emotion and I'm sure I'm going to feel emotion every day.

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And when something happens and he does move on, I'm going to feel even more emotion, right?

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But it's taking it one day at a time and then not allowing that to consume me for long periods

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of time.

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It's okay to feel it every day.

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It's okay to work on overcoming it, but learn how to harness it, learn how to make it, use

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it to your advantage, right?

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So that's today's thought, guys.

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One of the other things I want to talk to you guys about real quick is I have the amazing

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opportunity to be a coach for a program called Club Faction.

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It was previously known as the Faction Foundation.

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If you go back to episode 20, yeah, something like that, we interviewed Dr. Derek Price.

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Derek Price was a former NFL player, a football player for the Detroit Lions, I believe.

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And he is the CEO of a couple of different eight-figure hospitals, addiction rehab facilities,

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as well as having his own line of chiropractic offices and apart from many other things.

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And so he has created this amazing program and recruited some amazing coaches, not talking

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about myself, but the other people I get to associate myself with.

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And there are four main topics in this program.

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That is faith, family, fitness, and finance.

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It's the four Fs of life, okay?

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Many coaching programs, I've been a part of many.

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And it wasn't my intention to start a coaching program, but being able to be a part of this

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opportunity, I'm going to tell you why I took it.

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And that is because I've been a part of so many different programs.

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And in these programs, I feel like it's, you know, the world of business is full of so

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many different elements.

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And those elements are finances, family, your personal life, fitness, your physical and

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mental health, and your faith, whatever that may be.

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Those are truly the four pillars.

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And many programs pick a pillar or a pillar or two, and they expound on that and they

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teach that.

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And it's awesome, right?

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I've been a part of a program that's all about marketing and branding, which is all

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the business side, right?

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I've been a part of programs that's all about finances and numbers and data and reporting

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for your business.

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And then I've been a part of programs that's all about you and self development.

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If you work on yourself, everything else just works out.

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But I've never had a founder program, which is why I've been a part of so many because

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I've been searching that touches on everything that has to do with who you are, who you're

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going to become and what you are building.

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And this is that program.

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And I've been a part of it.

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I joined it, got to learn about it, got to learn so many things, and then was presented

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with the opportunity to be able to be a coach.

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So I coach the small business entrepreneurship class and I'm going to have the link in our

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YouTube video on our podcast.

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If you guys want to check it out, there's several different programs.

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It is non-expensive program.

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The money isn't what matters to us.

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What matters to us is changing lives and helping people where they don't know they need help

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or where they've been searching for and just can't find it.

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And so I invite you guys to go check that out.

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It's absolutely amazing and I am proud to be a part of it because I believe in everything

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that it stands for.

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And all these podcasts we've done, everything we've talked about, everything we've taught

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is already part of that program, which is why it just fits so well.

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So check it out.

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That is clubfaction.

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You can hit clubfaction.com.

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And again, we will drop the link on this podcast.

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And in the meantime, guys, or until next time, don't be a victim.

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Harness your emotional energy, use it to your advantage, and know that whatever happens in

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life you are in full control.