JR Ridinger
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234 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Not at all.
Yeah, and I'll tell you all about it.
And I think you would agree, the number one thing, and Jay and I lived our life with this, is protecting this. You know, protecting our mindset, mentally not letting people in here because this can either be a prison or it can set you free. Right. And so our mindset was so important. And he just used to have one rule.
If I would, you know, early in the early days, Lauren would, you know, I was young, 18 years younger than J.R. And, you know, I would say like, everybody thinks that you should do this with me. He's like, who's everybody? Who cares about everybody? You need to eliminate everybody, Lauren. And you need to focus on me and you. And not involve third-party people in our life.
So to have a good marriage for 36 years, that's what we had to do.
Yeah, no light. And no, you've got to have an agreement. No going to bed mad. A lot of love. Forgiveness for each other. Don't hold a grudge. Grudge makes you old and makes you sick. Creates disease. I don't care what anybody says.
But I think... The mindset of being around the right people and who you let in your world. And they've got to, you know, they can do a million different things. They don't have to be in the same profession as you, doing the same thing that you, but their mission has got to be the same.
That they care about the mind and they only want positive people around them and they believe in you and they lift you up rather than tear you down. You know, we all grow up in an environment of society that has a tendency to make us believe that we're not possible.
When we are.
And so he changed that for us. Our atmosphere changed.
Yeah. And that's true. And I think Most people are able, most people are capable, but they're not willing to. And that's really, you know, I say like, what are you willing to do? Because somebody is like, oh my God, I want to be like you one day and get up there and inspire people. And I said, you can be. The question is, are you willing to do what I do to get here?
26,000?
Yeah, 26,000 in Taipei. But, you know, are you willing to do what I do? See, the first thing I do when I get up is I do the hardest things first. That's what most people avoid.
They want to put it off. They're like, well, I'm going to wait till tomorrow because that's a hard call. I'm going to wait till tomorrow because you know what? That takes a lot of effort and I got to be alone and lock myself up in the room. No, no, no. My room is, and my rule is, is that don't come in my room till I finish the hard stuff first. Wow.
And let me get it done because I know that you're not going to do it. Somebody's got to do it. And if you'll do it, then I won't have to. But if you won't, I'm going to do it. And, you know, we've built leaders like that around us because that's a hard thing to do, as you know. Not everybody will think like you.
You know, how do I get people to do the hard things first when, you know, most of the time they're putting that off? You know, and being a good leader is also being able to make a decision. And Jerry used to say, I don't care if you make the wrong decision. I just want you to make a good decision. Meaning it could be wrong, but I want you to think it through.
And if you believed it was a good decision and you made a mistake and it was wrong on, it will never be wrong to me. Wow. We can recover from that. What we can't recover from is that you take forever to make a decision. That's called procrastination. That's the killer for most people. They put it off. You know, excuses, procrastination, something I'll never do. So I live by my decisions.
I make good quality decisions and I think them through. And I, like you, allow myself time to do that.
You know, I think it through. You gave your morning yourself. I do the very same thing. It's funny that when you told me what you did and I tell you what I did, they're the same thing. Successful people do very similar things. They own their morning.
And those hard things first have been a game changer for me because nothing comes between me and that time unless it's an emergency, unless it's a, God forbid, an emergency.
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