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The Action Catalyst

CLIP: Your Friends Can't All Be Pop-Tarts

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400

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Seth Bolt, bassist of rock band NEEDTOBREATHE, and his brother Chandler, CEO of SelfPublishing.com, explain why some, but not all of your friends can be Pop-Tarts. Wait...what?Hear the Chandler brothers' full interview in Episode 30 of The Action Catalyst.

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0.19 - 4.144 Seth Bolt

You have this phrase that you write about called forced opportunities.

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4.706 - 24.514 Chandler Bolt

Yeah. Yeah. So what I'm talking about there with the forced opportunities is I love putting myself in positions that are going to force me to really think outside of the box or they're going to force me to do stuff that I wouldn't normally do. So the example there when I ran a $100,000 business was I kind of put myself out there and decided to take this opportunity.

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24.734 - 43.888 Chandler Bolt

And then we had the training where they – it's like the initial training with the company. Basically what I did is – I went up to the CEO, the guy who was doing the presentation, and I said, hey, I have a big goal. I want to run the number one business in the country. I want it to be over $100,000. And I just kind of made a challenge and a bet with him there.

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43.988 - 63.362 Chandler Bolt

Like, I want to accomplish one of those things. When I did that, it's funny, like when you start vocalizing those things and telling, I made it a point to tell as many people as I could, because then I knew it was going to force me to deliver on that. When you're telling it to everyone you see, your mind starts telling you like, okay, I actually have to make this happen.

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63.522 - 72.79 Chandler Bolt

You know, you're going to put yourself out there to a point to where you're going to figure out ways to make it work. And when you have a specific deadline or when you have a specific number of

73.19 - 86.358 Chandler Bolt

or a challenge that you want to hit, that's when it really becomes real, and it's either a success or a failure, but either way, you're moving forward because you're forcing yourself to be put in that situation, and it's the forced opportunity that you give yourself.

87.082 - 110.534 Seth Bolt

So, Seth, sort of back to you, one of the things that you said is you said your friends are like a food pyramid and the reason why all your friends can't be Pop-Tarts. Yeah, I grew up – some of your listeners may be able to relate with this. I grew up in the South and in a very conservative home, so my mom was always – super picky about my friends and who I hung out with.

110.554 - 129.373 Seth Bolt

I actually heard this tagline from a lot of friends, but you show me your friends and I'll show you your future. And I thought it was cool that my parents made it enough of a priority that I put good people in my life to influence me. But I actually heard that from one of those people that were influencing me.

129.733 - 152.4 Seth Bolt

You know, you show me your friends, I'll show you your future was sort of a good example of how even though I love to have fun, I love to laugh, I love to cut up. I've got sort of five core friends and one of those is that for me because I need that. But it's really important that I don't have five friends that are that way. I mean, it's balance. You need that in your life.

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