Shawn French

I was having a very hard month at work and I was failing everywhere.

And I was still a top performer, but from my standards, I was just getting my butt kicked and my teeth kicked in every day.

And she sent me this YouTube video and it was Will Smith, Justin Timberlake, and it was just this montage.

You know what I'm talking about, those motivational montages.

And the first voice says, fail early, fail often, fail forward.

That was Will Smith's voice.

And so for me, I reframed my belief system on failure based on what that video was.

I still have it saved.

I still listen to it.

It's like you have to reframe what failure means.

And sometimes you have to go outside because you're not going to have the answer yourself.

You got to hear something or see something from people that everybody knows and that you respect because they've done so well and they're so successful.

And so for me, that's what it was.

It's just reframing by listening to that video and watching it over and over and over again until I believed it for myself.

Oh, that one's hard to define, right?

That's hard to define the habit because I think that's all the habits mixed together.

I believe that if you focus on the wrong thing, whether it's monetary or vanity, you're always going to feel empty no matter how much you accomplish, right?

You could say, okay, by this date, I want to make this much money.

And then you get there and you still feel empty.

Retract, it's process.