Dr. Jeff Spencer
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, I mean, you have to be your own champion of both of those. In becoming your own champion, it's a presence of being. It's not a technical difference. So whether it's locker room or boardroom, there are technical differences, but yet the
us the champion that needs to show up and make really good decisions consistently to make sure that we get ourselves into the winner's circle, that remains consistent. So I don't see that there's any distinction whatsoever. Like for example, I don't know what pencil sharpener to use, but we can find an expert to tell us that.
But I can tell you about you, the leader of your own life, CEO of You, Inc., what it is that you need to do and how you need to show up to be able to manifest the things that have to go right for you to be able to evolve into and demonstrate and manifest your talents and create the legacy that you're capable of creating.
You have to be coachable. You have to show up on time. That has to be your natural set point. You need to be able to do things that are unconventional. You have to learn to transcend your fear and the beliefs that you have that are no longer serving you well. You have to be a really great teammate. You have to be fearless about investing in yourself and your bigger future.
And you have to have a certain amount of innate talent as well. And you have to be able to hold reality as preeminent rather than trying to tell yourself the stories that you want to hear. You need to be able to look at what reality really is.
And with all of those elements that I just described to you there, if a person has those, then it's only a matter of time before they manifest whatever the goals that they have for themselves.
Well, I mean, it's always a tragedy when you have a genius that can't manifest their genius and lives the life of desperation and dies really being a statistic and an example of what you should never be and what you should never emulate. I mean, that's tragic in and of itself and certainly a great loss to me as well. But the real take home from this is that he was missing two things.
Number one, he did not have a roadmap that showed him where he was and what that meant and what to do to be able to move forward towards next. And if we don't have that roadmap and we don't have the second part of this, the sound counsel that can help us interpret the reality of what it is that we're facing and considering, because a lot of the things that we believe to be true aren't.
And we can't make them take us to where we want to get to. By design, they can't do that inherently anyhow. So therefore, two things.
There has to be sound counsel in your life that can help shortcut your learning curve to eliminate the risk of succumbing to preventable problems, but also having a state of readiness to recognize and seize opportunities that could exponentially catapult us towards our bigger future.
And then there also, again, there needs to be a roadmap that can identify where we are in process so that we don't misinterpret things as being something that they're not. So for example, in any highly aspirational goal, there's always a segment in the pursuit of that goal I call the daily grind. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be really hard.
You may actually find yourself wanting to quit and you may actually unfortunately talk yourself into it one step before you have your breakthrough. But if we think that there's not supposed to be hard because it means that there's something wrong with us, that we couldn't make right decisions, or we chose it on the other side, that's complete mythology.
But we wouldn't know that unless we had someone that really knew what the process was, because
our human mindset, those things that naturally occur to us to be true, it is not always our best friend because it does oftentimes talk us into doing things based upon what we presume it to be when it's actually not, that discredits us, that actually talks ourselves out of performing and playing the game that we're capable of. He was missing those two things. Yeah.
Well, it's actually, it's to learn behavior. And all of the prolific achievers of history have always taught us what to do when, if we're a good observer of what that is. And many times what they're suggesting is contrarian to pop culture. So for example, in pop culture, it's like, well, just get started, fail fast. Well, I'm not so sure you want to do that.
I think there needs to be a basis of readiness that's appropriate. that reduces the risk of a premature stall. Because I mean, if you fail too fast, too early, you may think you're not capable of doing it. It's just that you were too quick to make a judgment on something that wasn't true. So I really feel like there's so much mythology that surrounds the conversation of really how is it
that we get from concept of greatness and manifestation to the actual three-dimensional manifestation of what's actually possible. And so the champion's golden rule is Do the homework and the test is easy, meaning that first you prepare and then you perform. A lot of people think, most people are dismal about their preparation. They start way too fast, way too unprepared.
That sets themselves up for unnecessary failure or lack of confidence in self. So I feel first and foremost, we have to recognize the fact that Anytime we have an ambition of any sort, the first thing you always want to make sure that you do is prepare well. Don't kid yourself.
Make sure that the way that I see it, what history has revealed, is that there's five important steps that we should go through to make sure that we're properly prepared before we even start pursuing the goal, which would be the second half of that.
Again, that's part of the mythology of this. I mean, there's so much mythology that's around our decision-making in terms of achievement. I mean, I think it's one of the most important disservices ever to listen to some of the advice out there because it can't possibly take you from where you are to where you want to get to. Just don't see it. Yeah, totally.
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