Jim Burns
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what I say and what I do.
I can't control anybody else, what they think, say or do.
And so all I can do is be the example of what I expect from that.
And so I think there is, it's way too easy to sit behind the computer and you get a bad email or something that upsets you and you're ready to fire something off.
And I think that's what you got to know.
I control what I say, what I do.
Okay, what you said is upsetting to me, but I'm not going to react immediately.
And I'm like, I have big, big decisions or something that really is upsetting.
I say, we're not going to respond.
We're asleep on it.
We're going to come back tomorrow and we're going to have regulated and gotten through all the emotions, right?
You can't act on emotion.
I think just that whenever something upsets you that much and before you act on something, take that breath.
Take that time and just know that, like, let that be a part that's ingrained in you to be a leader.
People want in the face of, you know, you look at Churchill, right?
In the face of what was almost imminent, he couldn't assure them that they were going to get through the winters and the things like that of World War II.
But his just said, you deserve victory.
I can't promise you that you're going to be victorious.
I can't promise you.
But if we prepare and we set our minds and say, we're going to be victorious, we're going to deserve it.