April 1, 2024 • 42 mins
Ep.# 369 Don't Disrespect Yourself With Jealousy. Be The Hero YOU Were Born To Be.
In this episode, Rich Grogan discusses the negative impact of jealousy and the importance of being true to oneself. He emphasizes the need to recognize and utilize one's unique talents and gifts, rather than comparing oneself to others. Rich encourages listeners to step outside their comfort zones and overcome limiting beliefs. He also highlights the significance of personal growth, reading, and surrounding oneself with positive influences. Rich concludes by urging individuals to be the hero of their own stories and to empower others to do the same, in order to create a better society.
Takeaways
Jealousy is the weakest and most insecure human emotion, as it disrespects oneself and limits personal growth.
Each individual possesses unique talents and gifts that should be embraced and utilized.
Stepping outside one's comfort zone and overcoming limiting beliefs are essential for personal growth.
Surrounding oneself with positive influences and continuously learning through reading and personal development are crucial for success.
Being the hero of one's own story and empowering others can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
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Greetings and welcome to anotherempowering life changing episode of the
Warrior Confidence Unleashed podcast.
I'm your host, Master Coach Rich Grogan.
Excited to be here, coming to you asalways from beautiful Palmetto, Florida.
And hey, another exciting show coming yourway.
Man, oh man, I just, like 10 minutes agowas on a webinar and it was a host.
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Pete Vargas, who I work with, I'm soblessed with the 10X stages, him and Grant
Cardone, but the guest on there was DionSanders.
Woo!
And it's so crazy how life works out,right?
Because I already prepared my podcastnotes for the podcast, and I teased some
of you by having a video earlier in theweek about, or last week, about what it
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was gonna be about.
and I got pages of notes now, so buckleup, baby.
We are gonna rock and roll with thisthing.
And of course, the mission, the goal, thepurpose of everything we do here is to
empower you to unleash that inner warriorthat's inside you, unleash that warrior
spirit to be who you were born to be, toutilize your unique God -given talents to
stand boldly out from the crowd, not inwith the crowd, but out and utilize those
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gifts to be the hero of your own epicstory in order to leave a legacy, a
meaningful legacy that ripples throughgenerations.
So I titled this episode, it's episodenumber 369 by the way.
So episode number 369 is don't dis, therewe go, it's easy for me to say, don't
disrespect yourself by being jealous.
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Woo, yeah.
Be the hero you were born to be.
You know, I like to think that jealousy isthe weakest, most insecure human emotion
there is.
It is.
I mean, because what you're doing isyou're saying or admitting,
When you say, and I'll get to all kinds ofjealous words that I used to use and I
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hear all the time now, but you're sayingwhen you're jealous of somebody else that
they're better than you and there'snothing you can do about it.
So, oh well, he just got lucky.
Oh man, don't be jealous.
That's a weak human emotion.
That's the greatest form of disrespect toyou.
You were created, you're one, and overeight billion people on this planet, and
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you've got unique talents and gifts.
from God that no one else has.
So when we try to, I guess when we'rejealous or we try and replicate someone
else, which essentially is being nothingbut a cheap replica.
then we're disrespecting ourselves becausewe're a priceless original.
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We have gifts that no one else could everdream of having.
So don't sell yourself short.
Don't disrespect yourself by beingjealous.
Now, what are some of those words?
And I'm telling you, a few decades ago,I'm embarrassed to say it, but it's just a
reality.
I mean, we all learned, or well, we eitherlearn or we continue repeating the same
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mistakes and poor behaviors and poorchoices and...
continue to stay stuck where we're at, orwe choose, baby, I'm gonna fight back, I'm
gonna get out of this rut.
I'm gonna get that momentum going, thatdrive going, I'm gonna reclaim my mojo,
utilize my unique God -given talents, andbe who I was born to be, and that's a
priceless original.
So unfortunately, these are some of theyucky words that I've used in the past,
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and now that I'm kind of moving forward,stepping outside not only the comfort
zone, and I shared, oh goodness.
Make sure, if you're watching this onYouTube, make sure you not only subscribe,
but watch past videos.
There's like 540, 50 videos on YouTube.
And then, like I said, this podcast isepisode 369.
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So make sure you listen to previous ones.
But I just talked about the, what did Ijust talk about?
It's good that I got my notes.
You squirrel, I get sidetracked.
How I used to have that limited mindset.
I used to be kind of stuck in a rut.
I used to use words and say, I'm jealousof that person.
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I don't know that I ever actually said thewords jealous, but I definitely was.
And that kept me stuck.
Why?
Because I kept disrespecting myself.
And now, kind of the goal, achieved acertain level of success, which is good.
You hard work pays off, I'm telling youthat.
But kind of the next step, especiallybeing a Ziegler coach, Zig had always
talked about moving from, a lot of timeswe're in struggle mode.
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So moving from struggle to stability,stability to success.
And success, the next step issignificance, and then significance to
legacy.
So kind of the stepping point from successto significant is maybe you've had some
success in your own life, which is great.
You've got to start there before you canshare your gifts because you can't tell
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someone else how to get better and achievesuccess if you haven't quite got there
yourself, right?
But the next step is significance.
And significance is.
having not only your own success, buthelping others become successful, being
significant in the lives of others.
And when you're significant in enoughlives, helping enough other people find
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their true gift, their purpose, theirpassion, help them unleash their inner
warrior, and they become successful.
Now they're sharing what they did, howthey overcame, how they battled through,
because we've all got a story.
All of us have not only our unique giftsand talents, we all got a unique story
that's unique to us.
But there's a lot of similarities in a lotof our stories.
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One, we all struggle at some point intime.
We all have to fight battles at some pointin time.
Now, I have no idea the battles andstruggles and challenges you've had in
your life.
I don't.
But I do know if we continuously have pityparties,
If we continuously blame others, if wecontinuously are jealous and envious of
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others, that's not going to help us becomeour very, very best.
That's just disrespecting ourselves andcontinuously staying in that rut.
I'm here to help and empower you to digout of that rut.
Now, is my message for everybody?
No.
I mean, I wish it was, but some people aregoing to hear my message.
And these are the things I get.
It was kind of about my list here is, oh,it must be nice, or you got lucky.
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The sad thing is, a couple decades ago, Ihad a limited mindset.
And what I meant by that was, I thoughtcertain people got lucky and certain
people didn't.
Well, I now talk a lot about what luck is.
Luck is when preparation, you'repreparing, you're working, you're doing
all the stuff behind the scenes thatnobody else sees, is met with opportunity.
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And when you seize, or you see thatopportunity, when you have that
opportunity, you seize it, you capture it.
Why?
Because you were prepared for it.
And then kind of the cynic side will say,well, why am I going to prepare in case,
you know, what if that opportunity neverhappens?
Well, I would much rather be prepared inthat opportunity, which at some point in
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time, I promise you, it's going to bethere.
But I would rather prepare and maybe itnever happened.
And they're like, well, at least I learneda lot along the way.
At least I got better along the way.
At least I achieved a certain level ofsuccess along the way than not prepare.
And that opportunity is right there forthe taking.
But I'm not ready for it.
I haven't prepared for it.
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So anyway, back to a few other yucky wordsthat I'd say.
You don't understand my life.
No, I don't.
I don't understand your life.
And once again, you don't understand mine.
And it's not that I'm talking down toanyone.
I'm just trying to encourage you to stopusing these self -defeating words.
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Because once again, when we do that, whenwe're jealous, when we're envious of
other's success,
All that's doing is, well, disrespectingus, but it's keeping us down, and it's
justifying us just staying where we're at.
We're meant to accomplish great things.
We're meant to do a lot more than we'reprobably doing right now.
I know that I could be doing more.
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And the notes I took from listening toPrimetime Deion Sanders, holy smokes.
What a kick in the butt that was.
And a big part for me was, well, my gift.
And it was always there because people askme all the time.
It's probably one of the biggest questionsI get asked is, how do I know what my gift
is?
Your gift is what comes the most naturalto you.
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What you do, it's just like, man,professional athletes.
And all of Dion was a football andbaseball player, right?
That guy was a heck of a defensivecornerback.
He had speed.
He had the knowledge, the talent.
And then he made a brand out of it, primetime.
but it came natural to him.
That's what he talked about.
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This came natural to me.
Well, not everybody's a professionalathlete.
What comes natural to me is right here,right now, talking into this camera,
speaking, doing the podcast, doing thevideo blogs, being on stage, empowering
kids, parents, teens, adults to believe inthemselves, develop that warrior
confidence.
Yeah, I mean, like my book, you know,books on the back shelf there, Becoming
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Bullyproof.
Yeah, it was primarily about...
developing that bully -proof armor, whichby the way I got from over here on this
side, the armor of God.
But in a nutshell, it's everything I'vebeen doing my entire life.
It's about self -empowerment.
Utilizing the things that I've learned,like my book Becoming Bullyproof, I didn't
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believe in myself when I was a kid, and Iwas bullied severely because of it, even
as a teen and young adult for the longesttime.
And I'm like, why am I allowing this tohappen?
Well, it's because deep down inside, Ididn't have that belief.
Now, doing stuff like this, this scaresthe heck out of most people.
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Most people fear, people would rather,what was it, I think on the top list of
things that scare people the most, publicspeaking was number one.
Death, depending on what list you lookedat, was third or fourth.
People would rather die three or four moretimes than they would to public speak.
Well, this comes natural to me.
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What comes natural to you?
That is your gift.
Now, it's a matter of if you're willing totake that risk, to take that chance, to
get out there and do it.
That's what separates those that make it.
And what's the definition of making it?
Well, if you're able to utilize yourunique God -given talents and take those
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talents and make a career out of it tosupport your family, your lifestyle, and
then I think just as important, you gottatake care of yourself.
You gotta make sure your move from
If you're struggling, you got to get outof struggle mode to stability mode.
It's what we talked about at the beginningof this thing, right?
And then for success mode, but it's giveto others.
Help out others.
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You know, Zig Ziglar's famous line,probably his most famous quote ever, was,
how do you get everything you want inlife?
By simply helping enough other people getwhat they want.
Yeah, helping others.
And you certainly can't help others ifyou're jealous of others.
Now, for me for the longest time, it waskind of ingrained natural response.
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If someone was doing better than me, andthere were a lot of people doing better
than me, or were they?
And the reason I say that is because in mymind, I thought everybody was doing better
than I was.
It was like, well, I was always told thatI wasn't good enough, I wasn't strong
enough, I wasn't big enough, I wasn't tallenough, I wasn't smart enough.
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I'd never make anything of myself.
I'd just be a dumb, not lazy, I was neverlazy, I was a hard worker.
I mean, that was ingrained from working onthe farm growing up.
But just a poor, dumb farm boy.
Might as well get used to it, Richie.
Quit dreaming, get your head out of theclouds.
Some people are lucky, some people aren't,and you're not.
You're just gonna have to work your wholelife.
And it's true, yeah, you're have to workyour whole life.
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But man, be willing to step outside thatcomfort zone.
Now, is it easy?
No, it's called a comfort zone for areason, because you get comfortable in
that zone.
And then I know I got comfortable makingexcuses in that zone, excuses of why other
people were succeeding and I wasn't.
And I built, I got into that, you know,oh, it must be nice.
Oh, they got lucky.
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Oh, you don't understand my problems.
You don't understand how I grew up.
What was another one?
Oh, that's another one.
Easy for you to say.
I get that one a lot.
I listen to your videos and your podcasts.
Well, it's easy for you to say, buteverything is easier said than done.
Get over that.
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Just throw that away.
And by the way, if you're saying any ofthese words, get rid of them.
They're self -defeating.
It's limiting beliefs.
They're holding you back.
And worst of all, they're disrespectingyou.
You're better than that.
Like I say, you're better than that.
And once again, am I perfect?
I got it all figured out?
Absolutely not.
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I'm willing and working hard to learnevery single day to be a better person.
Why?
Because I want to bring that to you.
One, I want to be the very best person Icould be, the best 2 .0 version of myself.
I want to be the best Christian.
I want to be the best husband.
I want to be the best father, the bestleader, the best coach.
I want to be the very best I can be inorder.
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Because once again, if I'm not at my verybest, and not every day is a great day,
well, here, let me back up a little bit.
Every day has a potential to be a greatday, but not every day is all sunshine and
rainbows.
That's for doggone sure.
But try and find the blessings in eachday.
As I mentioned earlier about preparationand prepare, the better you plan your days
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out, the better you plan your weeks out,instead of just kind of wandering
aimlessly.
And once again, I am telling youeverything that I've done.
at some point in time, and if I'm notcareful, if I don't have those guardrails
in my life, I drift.
I mean, one of the other books back thereon the shelf you can see is called Road
Trip.
That's a book I wrote with Tom Ziegler,Ziegler's son, and it's all about having
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guardrails in our life.
Because without guardrails, now thinkabout, what are guardrails?
On the highway, you have guardrails,because if you drift off the path, bang,
you hit the guardrail and you come backon, hopefully into your lane, not another
lane, smack somebody else.
But without the guardrails,
You'd go off the embankment without guardrails on a bridge.
You'd go off into the water.
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Well, oftentimes we don't have those guardrails in our life.
And before we know it, we've drifted,we've drifted, we've drifted.
And the further and the longer we drift,the further we get off the path, the
harder it is to get back.
And then we get in that excuse mode, thatjealousy mode, being envious of others
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mode.
Don't do it.
I have no idea the struggles you've wentthrough.
Anybody out there?
No idea the struggles I've gone through?
I talk about my learning lessons along theway there, and I share some struggles, but
I share those not for a pity party, but Ishare those to let you know, hey, I'm
human too.
I struggle with those things.
Something I always like to say is, if weall took all of our problems and threw
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them in a pile together, and we lookedaround and we saw the problems that other
people had,
more than likely would say, you know what?
I thought I had some problems.
Woo, I'm just gonna go ahead and take myproblems out of this pile and back on up
and I'm not gonna say a word again becauseholy cow, I had no idea you were
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struggling with that.
But for the most part, I mean, we'rehumans.
We think of ourself first.
And to a degree, we need to do that.
We need to make sure we're at our very,very best.
Like I mentioned, kind of the steps.
If we're struggling in so many other ways,
We gotta make sure we move from thatstruggle to that stability mode first.
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Because we really can't help anybody if wehaven't helped ourselves.
You know, I've been working out like amaniac with my workout partner Dave.
Shout out to my buddy Dave and Dave's gym.
It's kind of funny, his last name'sHendrickson.
So I bought him a sign that's in his gym.
And it says, Jim Hendrickson, no pain, nogain.
So anyway, we see some of the videos ofposting pictures and videos of the gym.
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You'll see that sign in there.
But anyway.
That was, I had slid off the path.
Heck, I wrote a doggone book about it.
That's why I talk about feeling like ahypocrite, right?
Well, sometimes I forget to take my ownadvice.
But I know when I'm doing these videos anddoing these podcasts and speaking on stage
and empowering others, I gotta make sure,because I don't wanna feel like a
hypocrite.
I gotta make sure I do my best to stay onthe right track, stay on the right path.
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And I'll tell you, the more I do thesevideos, and it's my natural gift, and I'm
blessed with that, and I was always told Italk too much.
second grade teacher, Richie, you talk, orRichie talks too much.
Every one of my report cards, surprised Idon't have carpal tunnel from all the
sentences I had to do in grade school, Iwill not talk in class.
I will not talk when the teacher'stalking.
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So anyway, I guess the teachers weretelling me something, right?
Anyway, it was a gift.
But back to what we talked about withproblems and with not realizing the
struggles everybody else goes through, Ihad, when I first,
not first, but started really taking kindof my speaking career, if you will, to the
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next level.
One, I knew I needed help.
I needed mentors.
And I didn't want to pay for them at thetime.
I was like, well, what am I going tolearn?
Well, heck, I have to say up until 2008 or2009, I hadn't read a book.
I didn't even know I could read because Ichose not to read.
Now, somehow I got a college degree.
It was in kinesiology.
I enjoyed that, right?
It was sports.
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It was teaching PE.
It was learning about the body.
I was a personal trainer at the time.
You know, I did my aerobic videos.
You can see those back there.
I'll get some other stuff.
But as far as reading self -help anddevelopment books and coaching books, I
guess I've read some coaching books, butit was mostly magazines.
But I'd always struggled reading.
I had some learning difficulties as achild, and I knew reading was not my
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thing.
So I used that as an excuse.
That's why I don't read.
And then the other excuse was, I'm almost40 -something years old.
What the heck am I going to learn?
Bad.
Limited mindset.
Back then, I was using those, well, itmust be nice.
Oh, you got lucky.
Using those jealous excuses.
Being envious of others.
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I had no idea the destruction it was doingand how it was holding me back.
It was like, when a boat goes to leave theport, they gotta take off the ropes that
are holding it to the port, right?
To the dock.
If they don't, they're not going anywhere.
Or,
If they have an anchor and they're tryingto drag the anchor, it's slowing them
down.
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Well, my limited beliefs were the anchor.
Also, you've got to be careful of thepeople you surround yourself with.
If you're surrounding yourself withanchors that allow you to have the pity
party, to allow you to be jealous, toallow you to use words and phrases like
this, to allow you to come up with excusesof why you're not working out, all they're
doing is holding you back.
They're not helping you.
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Now, another thing that I've done in mylife, I don't drink anymore.
And I'll be honest, I mean, I never dranka whole lot, but I did my fair share.
Wake up the next day, not feeling thebest.
And then, of course, the older you get,the longer it is to recover.
And what happens in your mind?
You start making excuses.
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It happens.
Now, you do you.
You live your life.
I'm just telling you what's, since June of2023, I haven't had a single drink of
alcohol.
I'll tell you what, I feel better.
June of 2023, I got on the scale and I was202 pounds.
I know for most men that's not a lot.
I'm five foot seven.
It's the most I've ever weighed in mylife.
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Now, I said enough, committed.
I can really thank my workout buddy Dave.
He's fantastic.
He's part of the 82nd Airborne and reallyconnect with him because dad, see my hat
up there, dad was part of the 101stAirborne Division of Vietnam.
So a bunch of bad butts there, right?
Yeah, some bad dudes.
Good dudes, hard worker dudes.
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They know what life's rough.
But anyway, I'm down to 173 pounds now.
Jacked up, baby.
Yeah.
Did it come easy?
Absolutely not.
Are there days I wanted to make excuses?
Heck, I didn't want to get up this morningbecause we did legs yesterday and
destroyed it.
Holy cow.
And I'll give a quick shout out to theFitBot app.
So the app we've been using, man, it'samazing.
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It kicks our butt.
FitBot is the name of the app.
Fantastic.
I need to work out a deal with them andmaybe get a code or something.
where y 'all can get a discount if you useFitBot and whatnot, get it out there.
But today we did chest and we blew it outof the water again.
That little, oh, I guess bully in mybrain.
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Oh, dude, you've been working out, youworked out, and what is today as recording
this?
What is today?
The 29th, yes.
So.
It's been 29 days in a row.
And by the way, I've been doing thisWarrior Confidence Challenge.
If you haven't followed on TikTok orYouTube or where else, Instagram,
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Facebook, LinkedIn, all of them, thehashtag is, or not hashtag, handle, is
realrichgrogan.
Check that out.
But anyway, we've got a, there's 31 daysin March, so I got a 31 day Warrior
Confidence Challenge going.
I'm doing videos every single day justtalking about staying up with the
challenge and what you're doing to helpyou become the best.
2 .0 version of yourself.
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And I'm telling you, when you're doingthese things, not only are you playing
good scenes in your mental garden, youfeel much better about yourself, you're
inspired to be you, to be the best 2 .0version of you, to get your mojo back, get
that momentum going, get that drive going.
By doing those things, you don't havethose limiting beliefs in there talking
about being jealous and envious of anybodyelse.
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You're respecting yourself by being yourbest, by doing your best.
You're not disrespecting yourself by beingjealous of someone else.
And by the way, envy is one of the sevendeadly sins for a reason.
Yeah, don't be envious of someone else.
They've got their talents.
And if they're utilizing those talents andthey're extremely successful from
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utilizing those talents and they're doingit in a good, decent, moral way, don't
envy them.
Learn from them.
Get better from them.
Learn what they did.
You know, reading books.
And I said, you know, I didn't know Icould read.
up until like 2008, 2009.
Man, oh man, my bookshelf, I probably got400 books on my bookshelf now.
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I've got 530 -something books on myAudible account.
1 ,400 hours of listening time on Audiblealone, and I've had other apps, you know,
listen to.
And I'm not telling you that to brag or toimpress you.
Maybe just a little bit.
I'm telling you that because it allstarted with that first book in Audible.
It all started with that first book on thebookshelf.
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Now, here's another mindset thing I wouldsay.
Why in the world am I going to pay $15,$20 for a book?
What am I going to learn from that?
Holy smokes.
Talk about limiting beliefs.
Knowing I've written three books now, theamount of time it takes to put into
writing a book, on average, it takesroughly 10 ,000 hours to write a book.
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So what you're getting is 10 ,000 hours ofwisdom, of knowledge, of experience.
from that author and whatever amount oftime it takes you to read a book.
Now the audible version of BecomingBullyproof is, what is it, four hours
long.
Now to record that four hours of audible,I think we recorded for almost 15, 15 and
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a half hours.
That's just a recording, that wasn't thewriting of the darn thing.
Why, because of the edits and the redo'sand you know, this didn't sound right.
So I'm just telling you from my own books.
But I used all those things, why am Igonna pay this money?
for a book, what am I gonna learn?
Oh my gosh, limited mindset.
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Like an anchor in my life holding me back.
Start surrounding yourself with otherpeople that are on a success path, other
people that have been there, and that'swhere I mentioned earlier about Ironup
mentors and guides and coaches that havethe knowledge, that have the experience,
that have the wisdom to get you to whereyou wanna go.
But by simply reading a book, 10 ,000hours from the right,
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You can get that knowledge in four or fivehours.
Holy smokes.
Think about that.
Now is every book a good book?
No.
No.
And you know, I credit everybody that'sever written a book, but not every book's
right for you.
Not every podcast is right for you.
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I am not right for everybody and you'renot gonna be right for everybody.
But the people you are right for, man,they are craving the knowledge you have.
They are craving the wisdom you have.
But you can't share that with him ifyou're constantly being jealous of someone
else.
And you know, Teddy Roosevelt once said,comparison is the thief of joy.
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So when you compare yourself to someoneelse, you're stealing your own joy, good
or bad, on the comparison side.
Meaning, you could say, well, I'll neverbe as good as that person because, oh my
gosh, look at the talents they have.
And look at the, if you're going to talkabout athletes, I've been an athlete my
whole life.
Never the most talented or gifted athlete,but gosh darn it, I had a willingness to
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outwork everybody.
And you heard me talk about this on one ofthe last ones.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn'twork hard.
That's worth repeating.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn'twork hard.
It's true, because talent's only going totake you so far.
But back to the comparison game.
When you compare yourself to somebodyelse, you're defeating yourself.
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You're almost bullying yourself, sayingI'm never going to be as good as them.
Well, the truth is, no, you're not evergoing to be as good as them.
Why?
Because they have different talents.
They have different gifts than you have.
The same token, they're not going to be asgood as you at your unique talents.
But we get so hung up on where they're aton the social spectrum, how many friends
they have on social media, or howsuccessful we perceive they are.
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You know, all the conferences andworkshops I go to, I had a chance recently
to have a chat with Grant Cardone.
fantastic.
And he brought up something.
It's something I brought up before, but itwas a great reminder.
That's why I continue going these things.
Because I had somebody say the other day,why, how much money have you spent?
And why do you keep going to all theseworkshops and buying these books and these
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programs?
Well, the amount, if I total it up, it'skind of like a holy cow.
My poor wife's like, oh my gosh.
But little by little, it's not like I paidfor it all at once.
In the last 10 years, last decade, I spentover 100 grand.
Woo!
So I don't have a hundred grand to spend.
Well, I didn't either.
Started off just, you know, buying aworkshop that was, you know, or a book, 15
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bucks.
And then a workshop that was a hundredbucks or $97.
And then another one was $200.
And then the more I went, the moreconnections I made, the more I was able to
grow the business.
The more I was able to grow the business,the more I was able to go to other ones.
And then I was able to get my VIP, whichby the way, when you're able to afford the
VIP, I highly recommend it.
It's a whole different, my gosh.
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It's a whole different level because nowyou get a chance just like I did with the
VIP with Grant Cardone to talk to him, tochat with him.
Woo!
But anyway, he brought up, and this is agreat right hook of reality as a reminder,
he said, he goes, I know countless peoplewho are quote, quote, rich.
But I really only know, I forgot whatnumber he said, he said a few, but he said
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most of those people that are quote,quote, rich aren't wealthy.
Now think about that for a minute.
What does that mean?
Well, it's one thing to have money, butit's another thing to be wealthy.
And the difference is, yes, you've got tohave money to pay the bills.
But, and I've been plenty of guilty ofthis in the past, so money focused that I
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was broke in all other areas of life.
Wealthy is being balanced in all areas oflife.
You know, there's seven spokes on theZiegler Wheel of Life.
And by the way, if you go to our website,warriorconfidence .com, warriorconfidence
.com, drop your email in there.
You get the free Warrior Confidence Wheelof Life.
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And you can take the assessment and kindof see where you're at as far as how
wealthy you are with that Wheel of Life.
And there's seven spokes.
Seven spokes are your finances, how you'redoing with that, your business or career,
how you're doing with that.
your personal and family life, how you'redoing with that, with your friends, how
you're doing with that, and then yourhealth.
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And we talk about three levels of health,your mental health, your spiritual health,
and your physical health.
And those are the seven pillars of the, orseven spokes of the way of life.
Yeah.
And the, or your confidence just sohappens to have seven pillars as well,
right?
W -A -R -R -I -O -R.
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Woo!
How in the world did that happen?
Sometimes things just work out.
But anyway, jump on there on the websiteand print that thing out.
Take the assessment to kind of see whereyou're at.
But that's what true wealth is, beingbalanced in all areas of life.
So there's a difference.
So back to, and I'll make sure I don'tmiss anything on my notes here, Jealousy
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is the Weakest Human Emotion, StealingGives, oh yeah.
Back to the Euro One and over 8 billion onthis planet.
And this is something I talk about a lot,because I need the reminder myself.
Because we do.
Anytime we're feeling down, that littlevoice in our head, that negative voice
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that starts chirping loud, start tellingus all the reasons why we can't do this,
why we're not good enough.
And for me, for the longest time, thebiggest barrier that was holding me back,
or the biggest anchor that was holding meback, the fear in my mind of, you ready
for this?
Lack of self -confidence.
And that fear, lack of self -confidencefear, that barrier,
came in the shape of I'll never be goodenough.
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I'll never be smart enough.
I'll never be able to achieve my dreamsand goals.
And let me share with you the biggest fearI've always had.
I think I've only talked about this ahandful of times, but I'm gonna continue
to talk about it more.
Could be as genuine and open andtransparent as possible was the fear of
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never utilizing my God -given talents,living up to be.
who God wants me to be, but he was thebiggest fear.
Not being the hero for my family, my wifeand kids, the people I lead and mentor,
and not being the hero of my own epicstory, because we are.
All of us have an epic story, but wechoose to be that hero.
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We choose to battle through.
Why does everybody like movies withsuperheroes?
Because the superhero has to overcomeadversity, has to overcome challenges.
They have the challenges and battles, Imean, different than what we have, but
it's a lot of similarities.
But they overcome it.
They empower us.
That's why we love those movies, right?
It's like, yes, I can do that.
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Yes, you can.
But you gotta be willing to do it.
And you can't do it if you're beingjealous and blaming others for your
shortcomings or your failures.
Now, is life fair?
No.
It is not fair.
But don't go around saying how unfair lifeis.
Just know that it isn't.
But know you're going to have to worktwice as hard.
You can do it.
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But you've got to change the mindset.
You've got to believe in you.
Believe in your unique, God -giventalents.
You've got to be the priceless originalyou were born to be.
And don't try and be a cheap replica ofsomeone else.
How could you be a cheap replica?
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Get rid of those thoughts.
Don't disrespect yourself.
Get rid of that weakest human emotion.
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It's also not only is the weakest humanemotion, it's the greatest sign of
insecurity.
It is.
Don't do it.
You're better than that.
I believe in you.
God gave you a gift.
Use that gift.
And no, it's not going to be easy, but youcan do it.
That's why you're listening to this,right?
Yes.
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So I'm here to motivate you, empower you,inspire you, to relight that fire, help
you reclaim your mojo.
to be the hero of your own epic story, toleave a meaningful legacy that ripples
through generations.
Yes!
So something, when you're done and gone,people are gonna say, man, that person
inspired me.
That person helped me.
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Think about that.
That's a life well lived.
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I'm so super proud of her.
It's called Enchanted Events.
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would help do the karate birthday parties.
Now, and since she's been here in Florida,she's been doing character performers,
where she'll dress up like a princess,like Elsa or Cinderella or Bella, and do
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She'll teach self -defense.
She'll teach manners, discipline, andrespect.
And there's prizes for and gifts for thebirthday child.
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They have stuff for all the other kids tooand whatnot.
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It's all about, sort of like the ConnectedLeaders Academy, but this group's a little
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This group is all about,
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Now, it's, now I say a select group.
I'll personally interview everybody tomake sure it's the right group.
Why?
I wanna make sure we have the right peoplein the group to make sure the group
continues to grow and help one another.
Can't have someone in there that's notwilling to do the work that's needed in
order to grow themselves, and then ofcourse be an accountability partner for
someone else.
So that's what the group's all about.
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So anyway, all those links are in thedescription box.
You should check that out, please.
So to kind of wrap this thing up in a bowand kind of some of the notes I got from
Dion Sanders, kind of skim through it, Ireadjusted my own notes here.
His whole thing was, it fit right in withthe jealousy thing.
Be you and be the best you you can be.
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Don't worry about what someone else isdoing.
Don't worry about someone else's success.
Don't judge them on what you think you mayknow.
Be you.
Now, learn from them and grow from them aslong as, and here's a big one, and we
talked about this before, you've got tohave your core values in place.
My core values, honor, integrity,discipline, respect.
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They've been in place for, well, I guess acouple decades now, but all I know is
without those, without those barriers inplace, those guardrails, I'm like, well,
I'll try this.
Well, I'll try, and there's nothing wrongwith trying different things, but you've
got to make sure they align with your corevalues, and if they don't, don't waste
your time on them.
Same thing with people you choose tofollow and associate and work with.
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You've got to set up your core values.
Now, they're different for everybody.
Those are my four.
And if they work for you, wow, you'redefinitely what we're looking for in the
warrior confidence, at least, innercircle.
But come up with yours.
And those are your non -negotiables.
You're not going to break those.
And mean, I listen to Deion Sanders talkabout that very thing.
I'm like, holy cow.
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And talking about the reasons he did thethings he did.
You know, everybody thought he was alwaysshowing off, and this and that.
Well.
He was trying to prove to himself that hewas worthy enough.
And he was trying to, his mom, he talkedabout her, all the extra work she did, the
odd jobs.
She never got to see him play high schoolball because she was always working.
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So his goal was, look, not only am I gonnabe the best athlete I can be, I'm gonna
create a brand.
Because my goal is to make sure my momdoesn't have to do all the odd jobs that
she's doing just to pay the bills.
That was his goal the whole time.
Like, whoa.
So once again, at some point in time, youprobably judged Dion and said, oh, he's
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cocky.
He's arrogant.
Well, he was just confident in hisabilities and confident in what his goals
were.
So there we go.
Something learned from that.
And that's why I continuously go to theseworkshops, these conferences, these
seminars, always learning.
And I encourage you to do the same.
And in fact, you're listening to this.
Hopefully, this was educational for youand helped you in some way, shape, or
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form.
So if you're watching on the YouTubechannel,
Make sure you drop it in the comments.
Let me know what was your takeaway fromthis show.
And make sure you like and subscribe.
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Because like Lozick's quote, right, how doyou get everything you want in life by
helping enough other people get what theywant.
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That five -star review.
that helps us get higher in those searchengines and search results engine things.
I'm real technical.
In order for others to find it.
Because inevitably, if we've got morepeople that are empowered, more people
that are inspired, more people that aremotivated to utilize their talents, man,
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they're going to make the world a betterplace to live.
People that are jealous and having pityparties and are angry about everything,
that doesn't help society.
That doesn't help you.
Doesn't help me.
Doesn't help anybody.
And certainly doesn't help our kids.
And people say, well, society is a mess.
It is a mess.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
That's why we've gotta unite and be strongin order to create a better society, in
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order to be our best, to empower our kidsand those we lead to be their very, very
best.
Because things change.
And this kind of nonsense is going on insociety right now, they're getting all the
negative attention because we're, well,we're energy, we're, you know, energy
goes.
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Things flow and it's flowing in the wrongdirection.
Well, let's put some energy into somepositive.
Let's put some energy into empoweringourselves to be our best so we can empower
others to be their very, very best.
And I promise, good is always gonna win.
There's a lot of evil in the world.
I'm not naive to that.
Because people say, well, how can you stayso positive?
I get frustrated when I see the yuckystuff.
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But I think, man, I just need to workharder to empower more people in order,
you know, light.
Think about darkness.
is just the absence of light.
You go into a room that's dark, you flipon the light switch, the light comes on,
the darkness goes away.
That's what we need to do.
And we can't do that by disrespectingourself and being jealous.
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Good, good, good.
All right.
Man, oh man, that's a good topic.
I could probably talk about this foranother two hours.
But I'm going to leave you with that.
Leave you with that.
Remember, jealousy is not only the weakesthuman emotion, but it's the greatest form
of disrespect to yourself because you'vegot a unique gift that no one else has.
And when we're spending our time beingjealous of someone else, we're certainly
not focused on the gift that we are.
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All right, everybody.
Well, hey, thank you so very much forlistening.
I truly appreciate your time.
And I promise I'm going to not onlycontinue doing these, stay on a regular
schedule.
Now they got my back wall.
If you can see my back wall back there, ifyou're listening on a podcast app, make
sure that you jump on the YouTube channel,Real Rich Grogan, and check that baby out.
We got that baby done.
Got a little more to do on my bookshelfover here.
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But for the most part, I'm pretty happywith it.
looking good.
And of course, I could not do this alone.
My beautiful, wonderful wife is the onethat she did almost all the work on it.
And because if it was me, that bookshelfwould be so over jam crowded with stuff,
you wouldn't be able to see what's on it.
Because no, you got to kind of stage it.
You can't have all that stuff.
You got to move this.
You got to move it.
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OK, she thinks I got too much on thereright now, but it was a compromise.
Anyway, all right, folks, I love you.
God loves you.
Please share that love of the world.
And until we talk again, you get out thereand do your best, and I promise you'll be
your very best.
God bless you.
God bless your loved ones.
Can't wait to read your comments, and Ican't wait to chat with you again real
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soon.
Have a blessed day, everybody.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
Bye bye.
Greetings and welcome to anotherempowering life changing episode of the
Warrior Confidence Unleashed podcast.
I'm your host, Master Coach Rich Grogan.
Excited to be here, coming to you asalways from beautiful Palmetto, Florida.
And hey, another exciting show coming yourway.
Man, oh man, I just, like 10 minutes agowas on a webinar and it was a host.
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Pete Vargas, who I work with, I'm soblessed with the 10X stages, him and Grant
Cardone, but the guest on there was DionSanders.
Woo!
And it's so crazy how life works out,right?
Because I already prepared my podcastnotes for the podcast, and I teased some
of you by having a video earlier in theweek about, or last week, about what it
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was gonna be about.
and I got pages of notes now, so buckleup, baby.
We are gonna rock and roll with thisthing.
And of course, the mission, the goal, thepurpose of everything we do here is to
empower you to unleash that inner warriorthat's inside you, unleash that warrior
spirit to be who you were born to be, toutilize your unique God -given talents to
stand boldly out from the crowd, not inwith the crowd, but out and utilize those
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gifts to be the hero of your own epicstory in order to leave a legacy, a
meaningful legacy that ripples throughgenerations.
So I titled this episode, it's episodenumber 369 by the way.
So episode number 369 is don't dis, therewe go, it's easy for me to say, don't
disrespect yourself by being jealous.
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Woo, yeah.
Be the hero you were born to be.
You know, I like to think that jealousy isthe weakest, most insecure human emotion
there is.
It is.
I mean, because what you're doing isyou're saying or admitting,
When you say, and I'll get to all kinds ofjealous words that I used to use and I
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hear all the time now, but you're sayingwhen you're jealous of somebody else that
they're better than you and there'snothing you can do about it.
So, oh well, he just got lucky.
Oh man, don't be jealous.
That's a weak human emotion.
That's the greatest form of disrespect toyou.
You were created, you're one, and overeight billion people on this planet, and
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you've got unique talents and gifts.
from God that no one else has.
So when we try to, I guess when we'rejealous or we try and replicate someone
else, which essentially is being nothingbut a cheap replica.
then we're disrespecting ourselves becausewe're a priceless original.
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We have gifts that no one else could everdream of having.
So don't sell yourself short.
Don't disrespect yourself by beingjealous.
Now, what are some of those words?
And I'm telling you, a few decades ago,I'm embarrassed to say it, but it's just a
reality.
I mean, we all learned, or well, we eitherlearn or we continue repeating the same
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mistakes and poor behaviors and poorchoices and...
continue to stay stuck where we're at, orwe choose, baby, I'm gonna fight back, I'm
gonna get out of this rut.
I'm gonna get that momentum going, thatdrive going, I'm gonna reclaim my mojo,
utilize my unique God -given talents, andbe who I was born to be, and that's a
priceless original.
So unfortunately, these are some of theyucky words that I've used in the past,
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and now that I'm kind of moving forward,stepping outside not only the comfort
zone, and I shared, oh goodness.
Make sure, if you're watching this onYouTube, make sure you not only subscribe,
but watch past videos.
There's like 540, 50 videos on YouTube.
And then, like I said, this podcast isepisode 369.
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So make sure you listen to previous ones.
But I just talked about the, what did Ijust talk about?
It's good that I got my notes.
You squirrel, I get sidetracked.
How I used to have that limited mindset.
I used to be kind of stuck in a rut.
I used to use words and say, I'm jealousof that person.
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I don't know that I ever actually said thewords jealous, but I definitely was.
And that kept me stuck.
Why?
Because I kept disrespecting myself.
And now, kind of the goal, achieved acertain level of success, which is good.
You hard work pays off, I'm telling youthat.
But kind of the next step, especiallybeing a Ziegler coach, Zig had always
talked about moving from, a lot of timeswe're in struggle mode.
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So moving from struggle to stability,stability to success.
And success, the next step issignificance, and then significance to
legacy.
So kind of the stepping point from successto significant is maybe you've had some
success in your own life, which is great.
You've got to start there before you canshare your gifts because you can't tell
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someone else how to get better and achievesuccess if you haven't quite got there
yourself, right?
But the next step is significance.
And significance is.
having not only your own success, buthelping others become successful, being
significant in the lives of others.
And when you're significant in enoughlives, helping enough other people find
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their true gift, their purpose, theirpassion, help them unleash their inner
warrior, and they become successful.
Now they're sharing what they did, howthey overcame, how they battled through,
because we've all got a story.
All of us have not only our unique giftsand talents, we all got a unique story
that's unique to us.
But there's a lot of similarities in a lotof our stories.
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One, we all struggle at some point intime.
We all have to fight battles at some pointin time.
Now, I have no idea the battles andstruggles and challenges you've had in
your life.
I don't.
But I do know if we continuously have pityparties,
If we continuously blame others, if wecontinuously are jealous and envious of
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others, that's not going to help us becomeour very, very best.
That's just disrespecting ourselves andcontinuously staying in that rut.
I'm here to help and empower you to digout of that rut.
Now, is my message for everybody?
No.
I mean, I wish it was, but some people aregoing to hear my message.
And these are the things I get.
It was kind of about my list here is, oh,it must be nice, or you got lucky.
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The sad thing is, a couple decades ago, Ihad a limited mindset.
And what I meant by that was, I thoughtcertain people got lucky and certain
people didn't.
Well, I now talk a lot about what luck is.
Luck is when preparation, you'repreparing, you're working, you're doing
all the stuff behind the scenes thatnobody else sees, is met with opportunity.
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And when you seize, or you see thatopportunity, when you have that
opportunity, you seize it, you capture it.
Why?
Because you were prepared for it.
And then kind of the cynic side will say,well, why am I going to prepare in case,
you know, what if that opportunity neverhappens?
Well, I would much rather be prepared inthat opportunity, which at some point in
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time, I promise you, it's going to bethere.
But I would rather prepare and maybe itnever happened.
And they're like, well, at least I learneda lot along the way.
At least I got better along the way.
At least I achieved a certain level ofsuccess along the way than not prepare.
And that opportunity is right there forthe taking.
But I'm not ready for it.
I haven't prepared for it.
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So anyway, back to a few other yucky wordsthat I'd say.
You don't understand my life.
No, I don't.
I don't understand your life.
And once again, you don't understand mine.
And it's not that I'm talking down toanyone.
I'm just trying to encourage you to stopusing these self -defeating words.
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Because once again, when we do that, whenwe're jealous, when we're envious of
other's success,
All that's doing is, well, disrespectingus, but it's keeping us down, and it's
justifying us just staying where we're at.
We're meant to accomplish great things.
We're meant to do a lot more than we'reprobably doing right now.
I know that I could be doing more.
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And the notes I took from listening toPrimetime Deion Sanders, holy smokes.
What a kick in the butt that was.
And a big part for me was, well, my gift.
And it was always there because people askme all the time.
It's probably one of the biggest questionsI get asked is, how do I know what my gift
is?
Your gift is what comes the most naturalto you.
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What you do, it's just like, man,professional athletes.
And all of Dion was a football andbaseball player, right?
That guy was a heck of a defensivecornerback.
He had speed.
He had the knowledge, the talent.
And then he made a brand out of it, primetime.
but it came natural to him.
That's what he talked about.
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This came natural to me.
Well, not everybody's a professionalathlete.
What comes natural to me is right here,right now, talking into this camera,
speaking, doing the podcast, doing thevideo blogs, being on stage, empowering
kids, parents, teens, adults to believe inthemselves, develop that warrior
confidence.
Yeah, I mean, like my book, you know,books on the back shelf there, Becoming
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Bullyproof.
Yeah, it was primarily about...
developing that bully -proof armor, whichby the way I got from over here on this
side, the armor of God.
But in a nutshell, it's everything I'vebeen doing my entire life.
It's about self -empowerment.
Utilizing the things that I've learned,like my book Becoming Bullyproof, I didn't
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believe in myself when I was a kid, and Iwas bullied severely because of it, even
as a teen and young adult for the longesttime.
And I'm like, why am I allowing this tohappen?
Well, it's because deep down inside, Ididn't have that belief.
Now, doing stuff like this, this scaresthe heck out of most people.
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Most people fear, people would rather,what was it, I think on the top list of
things that scare people the most, publicspeaking was number one.
Death, depending on what list you lookedat, was third or fourth.
People would rather die three or four moretimes than they would to public speak.
Well, this comes natural to me.
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What comes natural to you?
That is your gift.
Now, it's a matter of if you're willing totake that risk, to take that chance, to
get out there and do it.
That's what separates those that make it.
And what's the definition of making it?
Well, if you're able to utilize yourunique God -given talents and take those
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talents and make a career out of it tosupport your family, your lifestyle, and
then I think just as important, you gottatake care of yourself.
You gotta make sure your move from
If you're struggling, you got to get outof struggle mode to stability mode.
It's what we talked about at the beginningof this thing, right?
And then for success mode, but it's giveto others.
Help out others.
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You know, Zig Ziglar's famous line,probably his most famous quote ever, was,
how do you get everything you want inlife?
By simply helping enough other people getwhat they want.
Yeah, helping others.
And you certainly can't help others ifyou're jealous of others.
Now, for me for the longest time, it waskind of ingrained natural response.
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If someone was doing better than me, andthere were a lot of people doing better
than me, or were they?
And the reason I say that is because in mymind, I thought everybody was doing better
than I was.
It was like, well, I was always told thatI wasn't good enough, I wasn't strong
enough, I wasn't big enough, I wasn't tallenough, I wasn't smart enough.
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I'd never make anything of myself.
I'd just be a dumb, not lazy, I was neverlazy, I was a hard worker.
I mean, that was ingrained from working onthe farm growing up.
But just a poor, dumb farm boy.
Might as well get used to it, Richie.
Quit dreaming, get your head out of theclouds.
Some people are lucky, some people aren't,and you're not.
You're just gonna have to work your wholelife.
And it's true, yeah, you're have to workyour whole life.
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But man, be willing to step outside thatcomfort zone.
Now, is it easy?
No, it's called a comfort zone for areason, because you get comfortable in
that zone.
And then I know I got comfortable makingexcuses in that zone, excuses of why other
people were succeeding and I wasn't.
And I built, I got into that, you know,oh, it must be nice.
Oh, they got lucky.
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Oh, you don't understand my problems.
You don't understand how I grew up.
What was another one?
Oh, that's another one.
Easy for you to say.
I get that one a lot.
I listen to your videos and your podcasts.
Well, it's easy for you to say, buteverything is easier said than done.
Get over that.
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Just throw that away.
And by the way, if you're saying any ofthese words, get rid of them.
They're self -defeating.
It's limiting beliefs.
They're holding you back.
And worst of all, they're disrespectingyou.
You're better than that.
Like I say, you're better than that.
And once again, am I perfect?
I got it all figured out?
Absolutely not.
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I'm willing and working hard to learnevery single day to be a better person.
Why?
Because I want to bring that to you.
One, I want to be the very best person Icould be, the best 2 .0 version of myself.
I want to be the best Christian.
I want to be the best husband.
I want to be the best father, the bestleader, the best coach.
I want to be the very best I can be inorder.
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Because once again, if I'm not at my verybest, and not every day is a great day,
well, here, let me back up a little bit.
Every day has a potential to be a greatday, but not every day is all sunshine and
rainbows.
That's for doggone sure.
But try and find the blessings in eachday.
As I mentioned earlier about preparationand prepare, the better you plan your days
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out, the better you plan your weeks out,instead of just kind of wandering
aimlessly.
And once again, I am telling youeverything that I've done.
at some point in time, and if I'm notcareful, if I don't have those guardrails
in my life, I drift.
I mean, one of the other books back thereon the shelf you can see is called Road
Trip.
That's a book I wrote with Tom Ziegler,Ziegler's son, and it's all about having
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guardrails in our life.
Because without guardrails, now thinkabout, what are guardrails?
On the highway, you have guardrails,because if you drift off the path, bang,
you hit the guardrail and you come backon, hopefully into your lane, not another
lane, smack somebody else.
But without the guardrails,
You'd go off the embankment without guardrails on a bridge.
You'd go off into the water.
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Well, oftentimes we don't have those guardrails in our life.
And before we know it, we've drifted,we've drifted, we've drifted.
And the further and the longer we drift,the further we get off the path, the
harder it is to get back.
And then we get in that excuse mode, thatjealousy mode, being envious of others
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mode.
Don't do it.
I have no idea the struggles you've wentthrough.
Anybody out there?
No idea the struggles I've gone through?
I talk about my learning lessons along theway there, and I share some struggles, but
I share those not for a pity party, but Ishare those to let you know, hey, I'm
human too.
I struggle with those things.
Something I always like to say is, if weall took all of our problems and threw
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them in a pile together, and we lookedaround and we saw the problems that other
people had,
more than likely would say, you know what?
I thought I had some problems.
Woo, I'm just gonna go ahead and take myproblems out of this pile and back on up
and I'm not gonna say a word again becauseholy cow, I had no idea you were
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struggling with that.
But for the most part, I mean, we'rehumans.
We think of ourself first.
And to a degree, we need to do that.
We need to make sure we're at our very,very best.
Like I mentioned, kind of the steps.
If we're struggling in so many other ways,
We gotta make sure we move from thatstruggle to that stability mode first.
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Because we really can't help anybody if wehaven't helped ourselves.
You know, I've been working out like amaniac with my workout partner Dave.
Shout out to my buddy Dave and Dave's gym.
It's kind of funny, his last name'sHendrickson.
So I bought him a sign that's in his gym.
And it says, Jim Hendrickson, no pain, nogain.
So anyway, we see some of the videos ofposting pictures and videos of the gym.
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You'll see that sign in there.
But anyway.
That was, I had slid off the path.
Heck, I wrote a doggone book about it.
That's why I talk about feeling like ahypocrite, right?
Well, sometimes I forget to take my ownadvice.
But I know when I'm doing these videos anddoing these podcasts and speaking on stage
and empowering others, I gotta make sure,because I don't wanna feel like a
hypocrite.
I gotta make sure I do my best to stay onthe right track, stay on the right path.
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And I'll tell you, the more I do thesevideos, and it's my natural gift, and I'm
blessed with that, and I was always told Italk too much.
second grade teacher, Richie, you talk, orRichie talks too much.
Every one of my report cards, surprised Idon't have carpal tunnel from all the
sentences I had to do in grade school, Iwill not talk in class.
I will not talk when the teacher'stalking.
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So anyway, I guess the teachers weretelling me something, right?
Anyway, it was a gift.
But back to what we talked about withproblems and with not realizing the
struggles everybody else goes through, Ihad, when I first,
not first, but started really taking kindof my speaking career, if you will, to the
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next level.
One, I knew I needed help.
I needed mentors.
And I didn't want to pay for them at thetime.
I was like, well, what am I going tolearn?
Well, heck, I have to say up until 2008 or2009, I hadn't read a book.
I didn't even know I could read because Ichose not to read.
Now, somehow I got a college degree.
It was in kinesiology.
I enjoyed that, right?
It was sports.
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It was teaching PE.
It was learning about the body.
I was a personal trainer at the time.
You know, I did my aerobic videos.
You can see those back there.
I'll get some other stuff.
But as far as reading self -help anddevelopment books and coaching books, I
guess I've read some coaching books, butit was mostly magazines.
But I'd always struggled reading.
I had some learning difficulties as achild, and I knew reading was not my
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thing.
So I used that as an excuse.
That's why I don't read.
And then the other excuse was, I'm almost40 -something years old.
What the heck am I going to learn?
Bad.
Limited mindset.
Back then, I was using those, well, itmust be nice.
Oh, you got lucky.
Using those jealous excuses.
Being envious of others.
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I had no idea the destruction it was doingand how it was holding me back.
It was like, when a boat goes to leave theport, they gotta take off the ropes that
are holding it to the port, right?
To the dock.
If they don't, they're not going anywhere.
Or,
If they have an anchor and they're tryingto drag the anchor, it's slowing them
down.
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Well, my limited beliefs were the anchor.
Also, you've got to be careful of thepeople you surround yourself with.
If you're surrounding yourself withanchors that allow you to have the pity
party, to allow you to be jealous, toallow you to use words and phrases like
this, to allow you to come up with excusesof why you're not working out, all they're
doing is holding you back.
They're not helping you.
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Now, another thing that I've done in mylife, I don't drink anymore.
And I'll be honest, I mean, I never dranka whole lot, but I did my fair share.
Wake up the next day, not feeling thebest.
And then, of course, the older you get,the longer it is to recover.
And what happens in your mind?
You start making excuses.
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It happens.
Now, you do you.
You live your life.
I'm just telling you what's, since June of2023, I haven't had a single drink of
alcohol.
I'll tell you what, I feel better.
June of 2023, I got on the scale and I was202 pounds.
I know for most men that's not a lot.
I'm five foot seven.
It's the most I've ever weighed in mylife.
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Now, I said enough, committed.
I can really thank my workout buddy Dave.
He's fantastic.
He's part of the 82nd Airborne and reallyconnect with him because dad, see my hat
up there, dad was part of the 101stAirborne Division of Vietnam.
So a bunch of bad butts there, right?
Yeah, some bad dudes.
Good dudes, hard worker dudes.
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They know what life's rough.
But anyway, I'm down to 173 pounds now.
Jacked up, baby.
Yeah.
Did it come easy?
Absolutely not.
Are there days I wanted to make excuses?
Heck, I didn't want to get up this morningbecause we did legs yesterday and
destroyed it.
Holy cow.
And I'll give a quick shout out to theFitBot app.
So the app we've been using, man, it'samazing.
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It kicks our butt.
FitBot is the name of the app.
Fantastic.
I need to work out a deal with them andmaybe get a code or something.
where y 'all can get a discount if you useFitBot and whatnot, get it out there.
But today we did chest and we blew it outof the water again.
That little, oh, I guess bully in mybrain.
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Oh, dude, you've been working out, youworked out, and what is today as recording
this?
What is today?
The 29th, yes.
So.
It's been 29 days in a row.
And by the way, I've been doing thisWarrior Confidence Challenge.
If you haven't followed on TikTok orYouTube or where else, Instagram,
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Facebook, LinkedIn, all of them, thehashtag is, or not hashtag, handle, is
realrichgrogan.
Check that out.
But anyway, we've got a, there's 31 daysin March, so I got a 31 day Warrior
Confidence Challenge going.
I'm doing videos every single day justtalking about staying up with the
challenge and what you're doing to helpyou become the best.
2 .0 version of yourself.
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And I'm telling you, when you're doingthese things, not only are you playing
good scenes in your mental garden, youfeel much better about yourself, you're
inspired to be you, to be the best 2 .0version of you, to get your mojo back, get
that momentum going, get that drive going.
By doing those things, you don't havethose limiting beliefs in there talking
about being jealous and envious of anybodyelse.
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You're respecting yourself by being yourbest, by doing your best.
You're not disrespecting yourself by beingjealous of someone else.
And by the way, envy is one of the sevendeadly sins for a reason.
Yeah, don't be envious of someone else.
They've got their talents.
And if they're utilizing those talents andthey're extremely successful from
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utilizing those talents and they're doingit in a good, decent, moral way, don't
envy them.
Learn from them.
Get better from them.
Learn what they did.
You know, reading books.
And I said, you know, I didn't know Icould read.
up until like 2008, 2009.
Man, oh man, my bookshelf, I probably got400 books on my bookshelf now.
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I've got 530 -something books on myAudible account.
1 ,400 hours of listening time on Audiblealone, and I've had other apps, you know,
listen to.
And I'm not telling you that to brag or toimpress you.
Maybe just a little bit.
I'm telling you that because it allstarted with that first book in Audible.
It all started with that first book on thebookshelf.
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Now, here's another mindset thing I wouldsay.
Why in the world am I going to pay $15,$20 for a book?
What am I going to learn from that?
Holy smokes.
Talk about limiting beliefs.
Knowing I've written three books now, theamount of time it takes to put into
writing a book, on average, it takesroughly 10 ,000 hours to write a book.
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So what you're getting is 10 ,000 hours ofwisdom, of knowledge, of experience.
from that author and whatever amount oftime it takes you to read a book.
Now the audible version of BecomingBullyproof is, what is it, four hours
long.
Now to record that four hours of audible,I think we recorded for almost 15, 15 and
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a half hours.
That's just a recording, that wasn't thewriting of the darn thing.
Why, because of the edits and the redo'sand you know, this didn't sound right.
So I'm just telling you from my own books.
But I used all those things, why am Igonna pay this money?
for a book, what am I gonna learn?
Oh my gosh, limited mindset.
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Like an anchor in my life holding me back.
Start surrounding yourself with otherpeople that are on a success path, other
people that have been there, and that'swhere I mentioned earlier about Ironup
mentors and guides and coaches that havethe knowledge, that have the experience,
that have the wisdom to get you to whereyou wanna go.
But by simply reading a book, 10 ,000hours from the right,
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You can get that knowledge in four or fivehours.
Holy smokes.
Think about that.
Now is every book a good book?
No.
No.
And you know, I credit everybody that'sever written a book, but not every book's
right for you.
Not every podcast is right for you.
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I am not right for everybody and you'renot gonna be right for everybody.
But the people you are right for, man,they are craving the knowledge you have.
They are craving the wisdom you have.
But you can't share that with him ifyou're constantly being jealous of someone
else.
And you know, Teddy Roosevelt once said,comparison is the thief of joy.
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So when you compare yourself to someoneelse, you're stealing your own joy, good
or bad, on the comparison side.
Meaning, you could say, well, I'll neverbe as good as that person because, oh my
gosh, look at the talents they have.
And look at the, if you're going to talkabout athletes, I've been an athlete my
whole life.
Never the most talented or gifted athlete,but gosh darn it, I had a willingness to
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outwork everybody.
And you heard me talk about this on one ofthe last ones.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn'twork hard.
That's worth repeating.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn'twork hard.
It's true, because talent's only going totake you so far.
But back to the comparison game.
When you compare yourself to somebodyelse, you're defeating yourself.
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You're almost bullying yourself, sayingI'm never going to be as good as them.
Well, the truth is, no, you're not evergoing to be as good as them.
Why?
Because they have different talents.
They have different gifts than you have.
The same token, they're not going to be asgood as you at your unique talents.
But we get so hung up on where they're aton the social spectrum, how many friends
they have on social media, or howsuccessful we perceive they are.
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You know, all the conferences andworkshops I go to, I had a chance recently
to have a chat with Grant Cardone.
fantastic.
And he brought up something.
It's something I brought up before, but itwas a great reminder.
That's why I continue going these things.
Because I had somebody say the other day,why, how much money have you spent?
And why do you keep going to all theseworkshops and buying these books and these
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programs?
Well, the amount, if I total it up, it'skind of like a holy cow.
My poor wife's like, oh my gosh.
But little by little, it's not like I paidfor it all at once.
In the last 10 years, last decade, I spentover 100 grand.
Woo!
So I don't have a hundred grand to spend.
Well, I didn't either.
Started off just, you know, buying aworkshop that was, you know, or a book, 15
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bucks.
And then a workshop that was a hundredbucks or $97.
And then another one was $200.
And then the more I went, the moreconnections I made, the more I was able to
grow the business.
The more I was able to grow the business,the more I was able to go to other ones.
And then I was able to get my VIP, whichby the way, when you're able to afford the
VIP, I highly recommend it.
It's a whole different, my gosh.
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It's a whole different level because nowyou get a chance just like I did with the
VIP with Grant Cardone to talk to him, tochat with him.
Woo!
But anyway, he brought up, and this is agreat right hook of reality as a reminder,
he said, he goes, I know countless peoplewho are quote, quote, rich.
But I really only know, I forgot whatnumber he said, he said a few, but he said
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most of those people that are quote,quote, rich aren't wealthy.
Now think about that for a minute.
What does that mean?
Well, it's one thing to have money, butit's another thing to be wealthy.
And the difference is, yes, you've got tohave money to pay the bills.
But, and I've been plenty of guilty ofthis in the past, so money focused that I
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was broke in all other areas of life.
Wealthy is being balanced in all areas oflife.
You know, there's seven spokes on theZiegler Wheel of Life.
And by the way, if you go to our website,warriorconfidence .com, warriorconfidence
.com, drop your email in there.
You get the free Warrior Confidence Wheelof Life.
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And you can take the assessment and kindof see where you're at as far as how
wealthy you are with that Wheel of Life.
And there's seven spokes.
Seven spokes are your finances, how you'redoing with that, your business or career,
how you're doing with that.
your personal and family life, how you'redoing with that, with your friends, how
you're doing with that, and then yourhealth.
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And we talk about three levels of health,your mental health, your spiritual health,
and your physical health.
And those are the seven pillars of the, orseven spokes of the way of life.
Yeah.
And the, or your confidence just sohappens to have seven pillars as well,
right?
W -A -R -R -I -O -R.
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Woo!
How in the world did that happen?
Sometimes things just work out.
But anyway, jump on there on the websiteand print that thing out.
Take the assessment to kind of see whereyou're at.
But that's what true wealth is, beingbalanced in all areas of life.
So there's a difference.
So back to, and I'll make sure I don'tmiss anything on my notes here, Jealousy
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is the Weakest Human Emotion, StealingGives, oh yeah.
Back to the Euro One and over 8 billion onthis planet.
And this is something I talk about a lot,because I need the reminder myself.
Because we do.
Anytime we're feeling down, that littlevoice in our head, that negative voice
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that starts chirping loud, start tellingus all the reasons why we can't do this,
why we're not good enough.
And for me, for the longest time, thebiggest barrier that was holding me back,
or the biggest anchor that was holding meback, the fear in my mind of, you ready
for this?
Lack of self -confidence.
And that fear, lack of self -confidencefear, that barrier,
came in the shape of I'll never be goodenough.
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I'll never be smart enough.
I'll never be able to achieve my dreamsand goals.
And let me share with you the biggest fearI've always had.
I think I've only talked about this ahandful of times, but I'm gonna continue
to talk about it more.
Could be as genuine and open andtransparent as possible was the fear of
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never utilizing my God -given talents,living up to be.
who God wants me to be, but he was thebiggest fear.
Not being the hero for my family, my wifeand kids, the people I lead and mentor,
and not being the hero of my own epicstory, because we are.
All of us have an epic story, but wechoose to be that hero.
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We choose to battle through.
Why does everybody like movies withsuperheroes?
Because the superhero has to overcomeadversity, has to overcome challenges.
They have the challenges and battles, Imean, different than what we have, but
it's a lot of similarities.
But they overcome it.
They empower us.
That's why we love those movies, right?
It's like, yes, I can do that.
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Yes, you can.
But you gotta be willing to do it.
And you can't do it if you're beingjealous and blaming others for your
shortcomings or your failures.
Now, is life fair?
No.
It is not fair.
But don't go around saying how unfair lifeis.
Just know that it isn't.
But know you're going to have to worktwice as hard.
You can do it.
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But you've got to change the mindset.
You've got to believe in you.
Believe in your unique, God -giventalents.
You've got to be the priceless originalyou were born to be.
And don't try and be a cheap replica ofsomeone else.
How could you be a cheap replica?
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Get rid of those thoughts.
Don't disrespect yourself.
Get rid of that weakest human emotion.
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It's also not only is the weakest humanemotion, it's the greatest sign of
insecurity.
It is.
Don't do it.
You're better than that.
I believe in you.
God gave you a gift.
Use that gift.
And no, it's not going to be easy, but youcan do it.
That's why you're listening to this,right?
Yes.
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So I'm here to motivate you, empower you,inspire you, to relight that fire, help
you reclaim your mojo.
to be the hero of your own epic story, toleave a meaningful legacy that ripples
through generations.
Yes!
So something, when you're done and gone,people are gonna say, man, that person
inspired me.
That person helped me.
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Think about that.
That's a life well lived.
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Well, she decided she started her ownbusiness.
And the link will be in the descriptionbox.
It's FL for Florida, FL, Enchanted Events.
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So check that baby out.
If you've got a young kid and you're inthis area and you want to have the most
amazing birthday party for your littleprincess, check it out.
And she also kind of revisited in the pastthere from Martial Arts Academy.
She does karate birthday parties too.
So she'll go through the, well, theprincess parties.
She'll be the princess for the karateparties.
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She'll teach self -defense.
She'll teach manners, discipline, andrespect.
And there's prizes for and gifts for thebirthday child.
and then I guess a different package.
They have stuff for all the other kids tooand whatnot.
But the link is in the description box.
Check that baby out as well.
And last, the Warrior Conference InnerCircle.
That baby will be starting up very, verysoon.
(35:56):
And what that's all about, that's allabout other warriors out there that maybe
your momentum's gotten a little stuck.
Maybe you're feeling like, man, I'm losingmy mojo or lost my mojo.
It's all about, sort of like the ConnectedLeaders Academy, but this group's a little
bit different.
This group is all about,
kind of that self -empowerment, ironsharpens iron.
We're gonna help you be your very, verybest.
(36:18):
Now, it's, now I say a select group.
I'll personally interview everybody tomake sure it's the right group.
Why?
I wanna make sure we have the right peoplein the group to make sure the group
continues to grow and help one another.
Can't have someone in there that's notwilling to do the work that's needed in
order to grow themselves, and then ofcourse be an accountability partner for
someone else.
So that's what the group's all about.
(36:39):
So anyway, all those links are in thedescription box.
You should check that out, please.
So to kind of wrap this thing up in a bowand kind of some of the notes I got from
Dion Sanders, kind of skim through it, Ireadjusted my own notes here.
His whole thing was, it fit right in withthe jealousy thing.
Be you and be the best you you can be.
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Don't worry about what someone else isdoing.
Don't worry about someone else's success.
Don't judge them on what you think you mayknow.
Be you.
Now, learn from them and grow from them aslong as, and here's a big one, and we
talked about this before, you've got tohave your core values in place.
My core values, honor, integrity,discipline, respect.
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They've been in place for, well, I guess acouple decades now, but all I know is
without those, without those barriers inplace, those guardrails, I'm like, well,
I'll try this.
Well, I'll try, and there's nothing wrongwith trying different things, but you've
got to make sure they align with your corevalues, and if they don't, don't waste
your time on them.
Same thing with people you choose tofollow and associate and work with.
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You've got to set up your core values.
Now, they're different for everybody.
Those are my four.
And if they work for you, wow, you'redefinitely what we're looking for in the
warrior confidence, at least, innercircle.
But come up with yours.
And those are your non -negotiables.
You're not going to break those.
And mean, I listen to Deion Sanders talkabout that very thing.
I'm like, holy cow.
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And talking about the reasons he did thethings he did.
You know, everybody thought he was alwaysshowing off, and this and that.
Well.
He was trying to prove to himself that hewas worthy enough.
And he was trying to, his mom, he talkedabout her, all the extra work she did, the
odd jobs.
She never got to see him play high schoolball because she was always working.
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So his goal was, look, not only am I gonnabe the best athlete I can be, I'm gonna
create a brand.
Because my goal is to make sure my momdoesn't have to do all the odd jobs that
she's doing just to pay the bills.
That was his goal the whole time.
Like, whoa.
So once again, at some point in time, youprobably judged Dion and said, oh, he's
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cocky.
He's arrogant.
Well, he was just confident in hisabilities and confident in what his goals
were.
So there we go.
Something learned from that.
And that's why I continuously go to theseworkshops, these conferences, these
seminars, always learning.
And I encourage you to do the same.
And in fact, you're listening to this.
Hopefully, this was educational for youand helped you in some way, shape, or
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form.
So if you're watching on the YouTubechannel,
Make sure you drop it in the comments.
Let me know what was your takeaway fromthis show.
And make sure you like and subscribe.
Ring that bell.
And if you found value, please share itwith someone else so they can also find
value in this and continuously help thembecome their very best.
Because like Lozick's quote, right, how doyou get everything you want in life by
helping enough other people get what theywant.
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That five -star review.
that helps us get higher in those searchengines and search results engine things.
I'm real technical.
In order for others to find it.
Because inevitably, if we've got morepeople that are empowered, more people
that are inspired, more people that aremotivated to utilize their talents, man,
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they're going to make the world a betterplace to live.
People that are jealous and having pityparties and are angry about everything,
that doesn't help society.
That doesn't help you.
Doesn't help me.
Doesn't help anybody.
And certainly doesn't help our kids.
And people say, well, society is a mess.
It is a mess.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
That's why we've gotta unite and be strongin order to create a better society, in
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order to be our best, to empower our kidsand those we lead to be their very, very
best.
Because things change.
And this kind of nonsense is going on insociety right now, they're getting all the
negative attention because we're, well,we're energy, we're, you know, energy
goes.
(40:35):
Things flow and it's flowing in the wrongdirection.
Well, let's put some energy into somepositive.
Let's put some energy into empoweringourselves to be our best so we can empower
others to be their very, very best.
And I promise, good is always gonna win.
There's a lot of evil in the world.
I'm not naive to that.
Because people say, well, how can you stayso positive?
I get frustrated when I see the yuckystuff.
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But I think, man, I just need to workharder to empower more people in order,
you know, light.
Think about darkness.
is just the absence of light.
You go into a room that's dark, you flipon the light switch, the light comes on,
the darkness goes away.
That's what we need to do.
And we can't do that by disrespectingourself and being jealous.
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Good, good, good.
All right.
Man, oh man, that's a good topic.
I could probably talk about this foranother two hours.
But I'm going to leave you with that.
Leave you with that.
Remember, jealousy is not only the weakesthuman emotion, but it's the greatest form
of disrespect to yourself because you'vegot a unique gift that no one else has.
And when we're spending our time beingjealous of someone else, we're certainly
not focused on the gift that we are.
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All right, everybody.
Well, hey, thank you so very much forlistening.
I truly appreciate your time.
And I promise I'm going to not onlycontinue doing these, stay on a regular
schedule.
Now they got my back wall.
If you can see my back wall back there, ifyou're listening on a podcast app, make
sure that you jump on the YouTube channel,Real Rich Grogan, and check that baby out.
We got that baby done.
Got a little more to do on my bookshelfover here.
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But for the most part, I'm pretty happywith it.
looking good.
And of course, I could not do this alone.
My beautiful, wonderful wife is the onethat she did almost all the work on it.
And because if it was me, that bookshelfwould be so over jam crowded with stuff,
you wouldn't be able to see what's on it.
Because no, you got to kind of stage it.
You can't have all that stuff.
You got to move this.
You got to move it.
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OK, she thinks I got too much on thereright now, but it was a compromise.
Anyway, all right, folks, I love you.
God loves you.
Please share that love of the world.
And until we talk again, you get out thereand do your best, and I promise you'll be
your very best.
God bless you.
God bless your loved ones.
Can't wait to read your comments, and Ican't wait to chat with you again real
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soon.
Have a blessed day, everybody.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
Bye bye.
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