Justin Prince
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Most people persist until the sister-in-law tells them that, you know, you're an idiot at the holiday party. Not you and I, my friends, we persist. How long? Until we succeed. And you keep adjusting and adapting and growing and listening and learning and just persisting until you succeed. And that's literally, you know, that's a man. I was just too stupid to quit.
I just kind of kept persisting and, you know, eventually kind of figure it out.
Sister, they used to say to me, they'd be like, enjoy the journey. If you're not happy, you're not doing it right. And I'm like, I'm not happy. This is hard and I'm getting my butt kicked and I am like not winning and this is not fun. And it is not easy to keep your emotional state, like the way you show up, your emotional energy. at a peak level when you're in that struggle section.
A quick formula I'll share with you. It's the E plus R equals O. So E plus R equals O. So three quick lessons. It's the event plus the response that equals outcome. Event plus response equals outcome. Lesson number one, the event doesn't equal the outcome. The E doesn't equal the O. Why? Because we get to own the R. My friends, you get to own your response.
You get to own what Viktor Frankl, who was hauled off into the Nazi concentration camps with his family, maybe the darkest time in human history, maybe this moment, certainly one of them. And he said, no matter what the guards took from me, they couldn't take what he called the gap. And it was his response to the events. He got to own the response.
So my friends, you get to show up with that same energy, that same passion, that same enthusiasm, that same dream, even though you're not there yet. Because remember, direction's more important than destination. You don't always have to be there as long as you're just heading the right direction. Keep moving in the right direction, right? Second lesson, the R is not react. The R is respond.
So great leaders don't react, leaders respond. So you get back up. There's two great questions, by the way, I think we need to ask ourselves as leaders and people that are trying to be change agents in the world and make things happen. The first one is how far, the second one is how long. So how far do I fall when negativity hits and how long do I stay down, right?
So the first one is a depth question. The second one's a duration question. How far do I fall? You know, when challenges hit me and then how long do I sit down? How do I choose to respond to challenges? And you say to yourself, I'm not going to fall that far. And you know what? I'm not going to stay down that long. Tony Robbins talks about his 90 second rule.
He's like, yo, I'm going to whine and complain and be ticked and stressed for 90 seconds. And then I'm moving on, right? Third lesson is this. Your R creates an E for others. So the way that you choose to respond to the events of your life will create events for other people in their life. So the way that you choose to respond, your kids are watching.
The way you choose to respond, your spouse is watching. The way you choose to respond, your employees are watching. The way you choose to respond, your team's watching. The way you choose to respond, the marketplace is watching. And you are creating events for other people by the way that you choose to show up and respond to the events of your life.
And so you want to say, am I creating a positive event for other people?
they're watching this or a negative event right so i think as you go through the process you start finding some of the gems in the struggles in other words take good notes but my friends we got to get through this section don't fall too far don't stay down too long move forward keep going you know persevere and persist until you succeed so you don't you don't revel in just the like oh this sucks and i'm never gonna get out of this thing you gotta kind of keep that i'm gonna show up with high energy high vibes even as i'm kind of in the grind section still
Can I ask you a question? You just did something there that I want to see if this is something that you are hyper aware of and something you teach or if it's something that you instinctively do. You almost talk to yourself in essence as a coach or a consultant. Almost like if you were to hire yourself, hey, Heather, if you were coaching you right now, how would you tell you to show up?
Because sometimes I think we sometimes we know the answer. We know what to do. It's just that we're not acting in our best self. Is that something that you... Are cognizant of, is that something that you learned? Is that something you teach people to do? Is to almost say, hey, listen, if I hired myself and paid myself big dollars to coach me right now, what advice would I give myself?
Because oftentimes we know the answer. We're just not, you know, we're just not applying it. How did you learn that?
There's so much wisdom there, my friends, because here's what I think we should all remember. You're stronger than you think. You can overcome more than you realize. You've got to give yourself a little bit of credit. She talked earlier about giving yourself some grace. and saying, you know what? We sometimes think that what we need is all external. It's like out there somewhere.
We all have that soul and that divineness in us where it says, I've got a little bit of wisdom. Now, I'm not suggesting there's not wisdom in counsel and that we're constantly pouring positive stuff in our minds. But you say to yourself, if I was coaching me right now, what advice would I give? We typically have some really pretty doggone good advice.
You know, we need to follow it and we need to, you know, implement, have the courage to move forward with our own good advice, our own good intuition.
Well, first of all, I'm working on a day to day. It's a constant practice. So here's the first thing I share. The first thing is philosophy. So let me share kind of my perspective on life. I'm a highly competitive person. So, for example, if you put me in an environment, I try and figure out, in essence, how do you win at this? How do you win at this game? So that means finding out the rules.
Maybe you could model some of the best players or best practices like you're trying to learn how to win. Right. So a lot of it starts with philosophy. The philosophy would be this. I feel like there's two races. It's actually the last chapter of my book. It's kind of this farewell chapter of the book, Be The One. The concept is this. The first race is the race we think we're all running, right?
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