June 13, 2024 • 29 mins
What if you could let go of yesterday’s triumphs and troubles to truly seize today? Join us as we explore the transformative power of staying present and maintaining discipline in your daily life. We share how past successes and failures should serve as lessons, not as obstacles. A hilarious story about an earwig in a headset reminds us that tiny setbacks shouldn't throw us off course. We also delve into the importance of emotional stability, discussing how avoiding emotional extremes can help you seize new opportunities and ensure continuous growth.
Is motivation overrated? Hear our take on why discipline, not motivation, is the true driver of success. Through my own struggles with technology, I illustrate how perseverance and disciplined effort led to success. We break down why so many of us fail at keeping New Year's resolutions and how you can flip the script by focusing on disciplined daily actions rather than fleeting bursts of motivation. Learn practical tips on living in the present and applying lessons from the past to fuel your current and future endeavors.
In our final segment, we share personal reflections on balancing the chaos of family life with professional aspirations. Listen to relatable stories of overcoming setbacks like bankruptcy and the daily juggle of responsibilities. Enjoy a lighthearted recounting of family dynamics, including a comical episode involving my son's first attempt at making smash burgers. The overarching message is clear: despite life's unpredictability, each of us deserves to pursue success and happiness by showing up each day with a renewed sense of discipline and fresh perspective.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You've got to focus on today.
You've got to be disciplinedabout today Now.
What does matter aboutyesterday, the week before and
the month before and the yearsbefore?
Well, the lessons you learned,but you don't have to stop
moving forward in order toimplement the lessons you've
learned along the way.
We've got to stop getting hungup on yesterday, though, and so
many of you are so focused onyesterday.
So many of you have screwed upso many things in your life in
(00:23):
the past.
You self-sabotage yourself andyou don't allow yourself to find
happiness, success, greatrelationships, because you think
you don't deserve it because ofwho you were or things you did.
Hey yo, hey, yo yo.
(00:58):
What up, logan?
Not much.
We're actually in the studiotogether yeah, it's been a
minute this has been fun.
I had to check the headset forbugs yeah, I did.
I did that an hour ago did wetell the world about that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
uh, I think so, but I'm not sure all right in case
we didn't anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
We're in a zoom meeting, um staff meeting, for
this is like a while ago.
This is weeks and weeks ago andall of a sudden, logan starts
freaking out and it's all onvideo.
He's's going nuts andapparently this is gross.
Our office gets cleaned on theregular, but this did happen, so
I'll be honest about it.
There was what do they callthem?
Earwigs.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, I called them pincher things, but apparently
they're called earwigs.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah them little pincher bugs.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That junk was in his headset and the earwig went for
your ear yep you lost it Ithought I was tweaking out
because I was like what is that?
And I just like kept doing that.
And then, like the fourth timeit happened, I like looked and
there was just a thing walkingaround the uh headset, so I was
stomping on it junk's bad dude.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Junk was really bad.
It was really bad so gross.
So I'm in here digging in myheadset making sure I don't have
any little creatures hangingout.
You know what I'm saying you'rejust saying but hey, that was
in the past so it doesn't matter, right it's over with like over
a month now yeah, you're overit, you don't lose sleep anymore
(02:20):
about it.
Nope, no, the dreams went away.
Yep, the nightmares all right,so I've just been from home for
a little bit well, at any rate,it's nice to be back in here
with you yeah we've had somereally cool podcasts drop in the
last couple weeks last monthand a half a lot of fun guests
we've had in a lot of dog stuff,a lot of dog stuff.
(02:42):
We've never done a lot of dogtalking and we've been talking
dogs a lot lately and that wasfun.
Learned a lot of dog stuff.
We've never done a lot of dogtalking and we've been talking
dogs a lot lately and that wasfun.
Learned a lot of stuff, hadsome really cool guests on um,
and they absolutely crushed it.
So hope everybody out there isenjoying the show.
Today, though, I want to talkabout something that I'm running
into with a good amount ofclients and stuff that not on
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the dog training side, but likecoaching clients or clients that
work through our media companyand we help with, and then also
it's a lesson that I'mconstantly working with my sales
team on, and I think there's alot of opportunities,
opportunities for us to applythis to everyday life, and the
comment that I made and I makeoften, is that was yesterday.
(03:24):
And the comment that I made andI make often is that was
yesterday.
Right, if yesterday was a greatday at work, if it was and you
were highly productive.
Let's say you're, you're insales or you're a business owner
and it just was a top notchkiller freaking day.
That was yesterday.
It's over with, it's gone.
Now there's there's today, andyou've got to be dialed in and
you've got to be focused.
You can't be super high onthose good days, but the
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opposite of that is you can't besuper low on the bad days
either.
You've got to understand thatwe're not in a world, we're not
in an economy, we're not in amarket where, hey, my business
is just going to steady, grow 8%to 12% a month, and it's always
going to be like that on theupward trajectory.
That's not the world we're inright now and there's going to
be more of an ebb and a flow andif your emotions are tied to
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that roller coaster, you'redoomed.
You're doomed, you're doomed.
You're not going to make goodbusiness decisions, you're not
going to make good personaldecisions.
You're not going to make goodpersonal decisions.
You're not going to make gooddecisions in your relationships
because you're all over theplace and either your team's
going to start hating you, yourwife is going to start hating
you, your husband's going tostart hating you, your boyfriend
, girlfriend's going to hate you.
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Kids are going to hate youbecause they never know what
they're going to get Like.
You're all over the damn place,and so you don't get too high
on the good days, but you don'tget super down on the bad days
either, because yesterday's overwith Today is a new opportunity
.
Today is a chance to atone forwhatever shortfalls you had the
day before, or it's anopportunity to do better than
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you did the day before, even ifit was a great day.
Today's a new day and a newopportunity.
But if you stay living inyesterday, you're going to miss
out on every opportunity today.
And what I mean by that livingin yesterday, living in last
week, living in last month'sperformances.
I used to be in real estate backin the day, and when I was in
the real estate industry it wasalways funny to me because you
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had your top performers and thatwas very consistent.
And then every once in a while,like once or twice a year, the
top performers would get beatout right and somebody would
come in and they'd have thehighest sales that month.
They sold the most houses,maybe the most units, maybe they
had the highest dollar volume,maybe it's mortgages and they
closed the most loans, or theyhad the highest loan origination
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fees, or whatever it may be,and then you would never hear
from them again.
You know, maybe nine monthslater, but they're not even
close to the top.
The month following that thattop month, and what?
These people?
I never took these peopleseriously because all they ever
showed was they had potential,but what they didn't have is the
discipline right.
And so they would crush it onemonth and they'd live off that
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success and those wins for three, four, five months Like man.
Why am I broke?
Well, probably because yourlifestyle is based off that one
good month you had.
It's not based off the average.
When you take the next fivemonths off, and your numbers are
dog shit, you're basicallyunemployed.
When you average it next fivemonths off, and your numbers are
dog shit, you're basicallyunemployed when you average it
all out.
But they're talking like oh, I'ma top performer, I'm a top
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earner, and that's the worldthey live in and that's what
they think about.
They're stuck on that.
Then they have a down month.
Then they have a down month,then they have a down month,
they have a down month.
Now they're in their head I'mnot a performer, I a closer, I
don't execute.
So they'll get dialed in andthey'll get focused and then,
boom, have a good month.
But they never had two goodmonths in a row because, whether
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it was high or it was low,they're always living off of
that and they're focused off ofthat rather than seeing every
day, every week and every monthas a new opportunity to go out
there and get it and win again.
And so the top, top performers,who are always in your top two,
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top three, top five atexecution, man, they are steady.
They might have a little bit ofthis, but their focus, their
discipline, doesn't change.
Their focus and theirdiscipline, day in and day out,
is steady, right Days there.
Almeris said something the otherday to somebody that we were
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recruiting and she goes look,the biggest thing you can,
because they were talking abouthow they're very motivated.
And she's like I don't need youto be motivated, I need you to
be disciplined.
And I was like, ooh, girl,preach, that's good.
That's good Because disciplineis going to get you where you're
trying to go when motivationfails you.
You're not always motivated.
I know I'm not always motivated, but I'm still going to show up
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at work, I'm still going toexecute, I'm going to still get
this done.
Hold on one second.
Everybody Got to click thislittle button right here.
This doesn't look like it'sworking though.
Little button right here.
This doesn't look like it'sworking though.
So that's going to be a minute.
Yeah, these phones are messedup.
Man, shout out to verizon, yousuck.
I've been with you forever,forever.
We've got so many damn lines.
This phone I shouldn't evendone this.
(08:16):
I shouldn't even taken this onto try to do it from my phone.
Junk's whack, logan.
Oh, here we go, here we go.
I think we're good.
Are we going to have success?
Oh, oh, success Lunch is on theway.
Nice Like that, how you just didthat little transition Because
I stuck with it.
Right, I didn't give up.
(08:37):
The phone's got me unmotivated,but I'm disciplined and I know
why people got to eat.
So I'm going to click clap,click clap until the chicky
shows up.
Discipline will get you whereyou're trying to go.
When your motivation fails you.
Everybody's New Year'sresolutions fail.
They're not not motivated.
They're motivated, but they'renot disciplined to maintain them
(08:58):
.
Right, everybody.
Because they're motivated,they're not disciplined.
Maybe it's health, maybe it'swork.
Motivated, they're notdisciplined.
Maybe it's health, maybe it'swork, maybe it's more time with
family, who knows what it is.
They're motivated by something,but they're not disciplined
enough to take action.
Discipline will take you wayfurther than motivation ever
will.
So how do you keep yourselfdisciplined?
You keep yourself disciplinedbecause discipline is about the
things that you can control.
Motivation is about the thingsthat may inspire you.
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Motivation is about the thingsthat entice you but really you
can't control If you'remotivated by the potential
outcome of your hard work andefforts.
You're motivated by thefinancial gains, by the
notoriety, by the success.
You really have no control overthat part.
What you do have control overis the discipline it takes to
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take every step necessary thatputs you in the best likelihood
of being successful.
People are like well, I deserveto be successful.
You don't deserve anything whenit comes to business and life
and success.
If you put forth the effort,you make good decisions, you're
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constantly growing, constantlyeducating yourself, trying to
look for ways to improve,learning from your failures,
trying to be a better humanbeing.
You deserve the opportunity atsuccess.
You deserve the opportunity toput forth the effort and take
the steps necessary to besuccessful, but the key thing
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here is what you deserve.
You have to change yourperspective.
I don't deserve any of myemployees.
I don't deserve any of mybusiness partners.
I don't deserve the mentors Ihave in my life.
I'm blessed and humbled to havethe opportunity to work with
these individuals and thesepeople and learn from them and
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help invest into them and pourinto them so that I can help
them achieve their goals.
And if they achieve their goals, that probably helps me achieve
my goals.
I deserve the opportunity.
I don't deserve the end resultyet, because if I deserved that
end result, I would already havethe end result.
I don't, but I thank God everyday that I have the opportunity
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to keep striving for it and it'sthat discipline piece.
Now, if I'm in a situation whereI get hung up on what happened
yesterday, am I going to takethe right steps today to get
where I need to go?
The answer is absolutely not.
If I'm 24 hours later, I'mstill celebrating a big sales
day.
Well, if I'm celebrating, thenI'm not working.
I'm not talking to new clientsthat need our help.
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If I'm hung up celebrating, orif it was a terrible sales day
or a terrible sales week, andI'm just in my head, why doesn't
anybody pick us?
Why aren't people answering thephone?
And I'm ignoring the fact thatwe got 50, 60, 70, 100 leads
every day coming into us, but Ihung up on why the hundred leads
from yesterday didn't answertheir phone because it's
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Memorial day and people arehanging out with their families.
Am I going to be able to executeon that opportunity I have in
front of me now?
Absolutely not, cause I'mliving in the past.
So if yesterday doesn't matter,that means last week doesn't
matter and it means last monthdoesn't matter.
You got to focus on today.
You got to be disciplined abouttoday.
Now, what does matter aboutyesterday, the week before and
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the month before and the yearsbefore.
Well, the lessons you learned,but you don't have to stop
moving forward in order toimplement the lessons you've
learned along the way.
We got to stop getting hung upon yesterday, though, and so
many of you are so focused onyesterday.
So many of you have screwed upso many things in your life in
the past.
You self-sabotage yourself andyou don't allow yourself to find
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happiness, success, greatrelationships, because you think
you don't deserve it because ofwho you were or things you did.
Guys, I've done so much stupidshit in my life.
I've ruined so manyrelationships in my life.
I've made so many bad decisionsin my life.
Gotta learn from it.
You gotta keep working and yougotta keep going and you gotta
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keep trying to improve.
I don't deserve success.
I deserve the opportunity to besuccessful.
I deserve the opportunity toimpact people's lives.
I deserve the opportunity tochange my life.
I deserve the opportunity tochange my family's life.
I deserve the opportunity toalter the future of the next
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generations of the Wilson family.
I deserve the chance to do it,but I've got to be disciplined
enough to do it, and there'sbeen seasons where I was very
hung up on mistakes I've madeLong, long time ago.
You know, when we went bankrupt, we lost everything.
It took me a while to get outof that.
I'm not taking opportunities.
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I didn't feel like I deservedopportunities and it took time
opportunities.
And it took time.
I had to get myself right Notperfect, far from perfect, but I
had to get myself right to getmy confidence up a little bit,
get that internal swagger up alittle bit to where I feel like
I deserve the opportunity.
Now you're given theopportunity, what are you going
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to do with it?
Are you disciplined enough todo something with it?
It doesn't mean every dayyou're motivated.
You're not going to be.
I already talked about that.
That's where the disciplinecomes in.
Yesterday is only worth itslessons.
Last week is only worth itslessons Last year and the years
before that.
It's only worth its lessons.
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Are you showing up today?
The question the recruit askedme yesterday what do you like
most about what you guys do?
And my answer was becauseyesterday doesn't matter.
That was my answer to her.
Every day I wake up and it's anew opportunity.
That's it.
If I had a bad day with myfamily yesterday, if I was being
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a shithead and, you know,grumpy about stuff and didn't
have a great day with, with withDevin, cause I was less than
kind or understanding orcompassionate or I'd been in
meetings and talking all day andlistening to people all day and
I didn't want to hear anythingwhen I got home and I probably
didn't communicate that in thebest way.
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Logan's never witnessed thatbefore.
Um, no, never, never.
It's like I hear you.
I just need you to understand.
I don't care right, like whatthe hell?
Who says that to somebody?
But I said that to devin, I'vesaid that to logan before.
Like I don't understand what'swrong with me.
Y'all like shit.
Like there's moments, okay, butnow I've gone to bed, it's the
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next day.
I have an opportunity to be likehey, son, I'm sorry, I'm not
really a shithead, I was just,it was a moment.
Hey, devin, I'm sorry, I was ashithead.
You've been with me long enoughto know that I'm not like an
overarching shithead, I just hada shithead moment and luckily,
because of God's love for mealone, I have a wife and kids
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who have so much grace for me.
They don't make me live in thatmoment.
They let me move on from thatmoment and try again the next
day, right, and that's.
That's another thing about likeour family kind of as a whole.
Like we have teenage kidslogan's gonna be 20 in december,
kiki just turned 17.
They do some stupid shitsometimes like that's just, yeah
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, yeah right.
Like for father's day I said Iwanted a blackstone grill and um
, we're horrible gift givers inthe wilson fam.
Well, maybe I am oh logan'spretty bad at this too.
If we get something forsomebody we care about, it's
very difficult for us to notgive it to them.
So a lot of times, like we'regreat gift givers, we just
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aren't good at keeping it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I gave Kiki her birthday gift like months before
she forgot about it.
Yeah, it was her birthday right.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So he re-gifted it and it was hysterical.
But if I get something forDevin like, I want to see
Devin's reaction, I want to seeDevin's reaction.
I want to see her response.
I'm so excited to give her thegift, or, with the kids, like
I've always.
Last year we got Kiki a car forher 16th birthday.
We had that car for like fivedays.
It was the worst five days ever.
It was the worst five days everbecause I had to sit here and
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look at this car and I wanted toget her response.
But we waited till her birthdayand that was fine.
But anyway, I said I wantedthis blackstone.
Devin and jenna super sweet.
They went and got theblackstone for me.
Um, got it set up and logan, heis the smash burger king.
He's gonna make us smashburgers for dinner on sunday
nope, monday, monday.
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So, um, we get this thing puttogether.
It's on the back deck.
Logan's got all his stuff.
He's coming in and out with allof his things.
The grill is on because we hadto season it, so it was hot as
all get out.
Neither of us have used one ofthese things before.
He uses a griddle in the housewhen he makes these smash
burgers, logan.
How fast do those burgers cook?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I didn't even have a chance to grab stuff and flip
them.
They were already cooked.
Usually I wait a couple minuteson the griddle.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So I'm jumping in, I'm trying to help.
He's grabbing buns, he'sgrabbing seeds.
It was chaos, but we knockedout some delicious ass burgers.
They were really good.
But the funny thing was I waslike, son, you got to get some
butter, throw that on thegriddle when you cook this stuff
up.
And so I see my son walkingthrough the house with a palm
full of butter and apparently itwas just what was left of the
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stick of butter.
It was on like a little buttertray.
So Logan grabs the butter, goesoutside, and my immediate
response when I see things likethis the hell are you doing?
Like what?
What are you doing?
I got the butter, I'm gonna goput it on the grill, and so I
was like son.
First of all, that's not enoughbutter.
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Why is it just in your hand?
So now he goes to the fridge,finds a stick of butter it was
wrapped in paper.
It was in the garage, in thatfridge, not.
We don't just keep butterlaying in the garage, so it's in
the fridge.
In the garage he now fridge.
We don't just keep butterlaying in the garage, so it's in
the fridge.
In the garage he now has a fullstick in paper of butter.
Takes that outside, no problem.
30 seconds later, my son who'sbrilliant, by the way is walking
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back through the house with thebutter that was in his hand a
few minutes ago, which hasdefinitely started to melt by
now, in his hand again.
I lost it.
I lost it.
I just was so shook by thethought process that's taking
place in this moment Now.
We worked through it.
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I said some things Logan, it'skind of funny, cause he's just
like whatever and kind of fussedat me.
And then he goes back to thegrill.
We don't.
These interactions happen kindof regularly between someone in
our house.
None of us get so hung up onthe silliness of yesterday,
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right like by time.
Like we had a great dinner, itwas delicious.
Tell you good nightnight.
Tell you I love you.
Love you too, dad, I'll see youtomorrow.
And it's the same thing.
He and Kiki got into it theother day.
It was totally crazy.
Kiki fires off, she goes fromzero to 100, like that.
I don't know where she gets itfrom, probably her mom.
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Do you think so too, logan?
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Do you do you think so too, logan?
Yeah, do you think it's mom?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
for sure, for sure.
Yeah, definitely devon.
I don't know who else it wouldbe.
Yeah, it surely isn't me.
I'm mr calm, cool and collectedon a daily basis.
Well, anyway, they get into it.
I find out about it, have aconversation like they're not
hung up on it.
It will become a joke now likewe'll rag on each other about it
, but the reality is, yeah, sheoverstepped.
She really irritated herbrother, but 10 minutes after
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that had she called and likelogan, I need your help with
something.
We don't operate where we'rehung up on someone pissing you
off 10 minutes ago, he's thereto take care of his sister and
do whatever she needs, right?
If I'm a shitty dad one day,they're not holding that against
me the next day.
If they screw something superstupid up, we're going to talk
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about it and we move on from it.
If it ever comes up again,typically it's in a poking fun
way, busting balls in our family, but we're not like hung up on
it, judging each other, right?
I mean, that's just not how itis, because yesterday doesn't
matter.
We have today together,everybody's healthy, everybody's
happy.
We're so fortunate that that isthe case Everyone's happy and
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healthy, like we have anopportunity to try again today.
Yesterday doesn't matter andit's even if it's good shit,
like okay, that was cool, it's agreat memory.
Something didn't great happen.
There was a lesson learned, butwe're moved on and focused on
today.
Allow yourself the freedom tomove on.
Allow yourself the freedom tojust say I'm sorry.
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Another great example of thisKatie Peyton, almaris, devin and
I went on a little trip lastweek and we're flying back.
We're coming through theairport and Katie got hung up in
security.
Katie and I travel together alot and it is rare that there is
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not some sort of little issue.
That's typically really funny.
Well, this particular TSA agentthey weren't super cool and it
became a bit of a thing for noreason whatsoever.
They were giving Katie a hardtime about something I chimed in
Al.
I chimed in Almaris chimed init didn't help the situation at
all and it got pretty stupid.
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So Katie gets on and goesthrough.
Then they scan my passport.
This other lady scans mypassport and something pops up
and like, can you scan it again?
Scan it again.
Something pops up and I say hey, could it?
Could it be that the thingscanning my picture is is
rotated sideways, like should Itilt my head, should it's, and
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they didn't think that was funnyand clearly that couldn't
possibly be the issue that I flyweekly, basically, and I've
never once had a problem goingthrough that particular part.
But there was a problem.
This camera was tilted and soit changed my face.
So it's scanning me sidewaysand obviously he's trying to do
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facial recognition and I thoughtmaybe it was a computer thing.
Next thing, I know they get themanager to come over.
While this is happening, I I'mfussing at Katie.
We're yelling back and forth ateach other as she's going
through the, the body scanner,and the, the luggage part.
So I'm sure we're really makinga lot of friends.
There was no line in thisbeautiful little airport we were
at.
Now there's about 30 peoplelined up behind me, peyton and
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Almaris, like Josh, what are youdoing?
And I'm like man, I don't know.
Manager comes over.
He's looking at stuff, clickingthings, looking at me, looking
at my passport.
Next thing, you know, thesupervisor comes over.
This dude comes over with abook.
He has a binder and he startspulling pictures out of this
binder and he's like picture andlooking at me and asking me to
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scan my passport again.
I'm like wait a minute, arethey trying to match me up with
somebody in this damn book again?
I'm like, wait a minute.
Are they trying to match me upwith somebody in this damn book?
Again?
I fly all the time, no issues.
So finally they let me through.
I get through the scanner.
They won't.
They make me take my shoes off,to make me take my hat off, to
make me take my belt off, allthings Nobody ever makes me do
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Cause I'm pre-check, all right,but I said, sir, I'm pre-check,
I don't't, I don't need to takethis stuff off, correct?
Well, did they give you theblue ticket?
Like blue ticket?
No, I was just over there withthe supervisor, the manager, um,
you know, jesus himself, likeall everybody, was involved in
me getting through the check-incounter.
He's like no blue ticket, nopre-check.
Oh, sir, here's my boardingpass, I'm pre-check.
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Sir, here's my boarding pass.
I'm pre-check.
No blue ticket, no pre-check.
I need your boots off, I needyour hat off, I need your belt
off, no problem.
So now I'm taking off all thisstuff.
And who wears boots on a plane?
Me, because I don't got to takethem off.
So now I'm taking them off.
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Now I'm sweating.
We're in California, where Inever sweat, by the way.
So I'm pissed off because thisis whole situation.
I get through the security thing.
I grabbed my shit and I startyelling at Katie.
I'm pissed off because I justknew that it was her fault that
I was getting in trouble withTSA because she pissed them all
off.
Two minutes later I look at her.
(25:18):
I say you know what, katie?
I apologize If someone's.
If that what was happening toyou was happening to me and
people started chiming in, Iwould have lost my shit.
I'd have gone nuts.
I would have gone nuts.
I'm sorry.
And she looked at me and saysI'm sorry too.
We've already moved on.
We continue on to the plane.
(25:38):
We get on the plane and fiveminutes after they close the
doors and we're getting ready topush back, all of our phones
start beeping your flight's beencanceled.
So we all get to get off theplane and we're trying to figure
out what to do.
And all the sheep go and get inline at the airport and they're
trying to figure out all thisstuff.
I'm like let's get the hell outof here and figure it out.
(26:00):
And I'm thankful.
Thankful that we have the means, we have the ability to not be
stuck.
I'm thankful that for the mostpart there wasn't a place I had
to be that night.
There wasn't that pressure.
There was some pressure withsome of our companions and we
got them out earlier.
But for the most part it wasfine.
But here's the point of story.
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We ended up being in Californiafor another two days.
Devin, katie and I, almaris andPeyton.
We got out the next morningearly.
We had a great time.
We had a great time.
Katie and I totally embarrassedeach other in the airport in
front of people.
I don't do that.
She doesn't do that Like frontof people.
I don't do that.
She doesn't do that.
Like we were legit fussing ateach other.
It's ridiculous.
(26:43):
I'm so embarrassed by how I wasacting.
It didn't mess up a singleminute of our time.
We got out of that airport, weapologized, we moved on.
Honestly, it became a funny assstory that we joked about that
night the next day, tellingother people about it.
Poor Devin, she zips rightthrough security, she walks to
the other end of the terminal,goes to the bathroom, comes back
None of us are still there andshe's like what the hell's going
on.
And then here comes Katiethrough, here comes me through
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and it's just freaking tornadoand Devin's like holy shit, like
can y'all relax?
Can you guys chill out?
10 minutes ago, basicallyyesterday, it's done and over
with.
What are we going to do withthat rest of that time?
And we had a great timetogether.
We had a great time togetherMoving on.
There was a lesson learned inthat moment, in that situation,
for all of us Could have handledit better, could have handled
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it differently, acknowledgedwhere we screwed up and we just
moved on.
And if it gets referenced again, it's a joke.
So when the recruit asked mewhat do you like most about what
you do?
Why do you love it so much?
Because yesterday doesn'tmatter.
Whether I was the greatest orthe worst, yesterday doesn't
matter.
I got today to make it right.
I've got today to get at batagain and give it another shot.
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I deserve the opportunity to besuccessful.
I deserve the opportunity tomake it right.
I deserve the opportunity toput in the work to win.
I deserve the opportunity toshow my kids how much I love
them.
I deserve the opportunity toshow my wife, day in and day out
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, how much she means to me andhow special she is to me.
I deserve the opportunity to goafter whatever I want, and so
do you.
Stop sabotaging yourself.
The world's going to throwenough shit at you where you
don't need to do it yourself.
Life is hard enough.
Life is random enough.
The stuff I hear about on adaily basis of things people and
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families are going through andpeople who are passing away, and
accidents that are happeningand kids are deathly ill and
just tragedies no one deservesthose things.
It's just life.
It's just life.
But if you wake up the nextmorning, you deserve the
opportunity to go again.
So do you.
We're going to catch you nexttime on the Big Dog Podcast.
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We love you.
We appreciate you.
Hope this helps to catch younext time on the Big Dog Podcast
.
We love you.
We appreciate you.
Hope this helps somebody.
I know it helped me.
Son, I'll catch you next time.
You've got to focus on today.
You've got to be disciplinedabout today Now.
What does matter aboutyesterday, the week before and
the month before and the yearsbefore?
Well, the lessons you learned,but you don't have to stop
moving forward in order toimplement the lessons you've
learned along the way.
We've got to stop getting hungup on yesterday, though, and so
many of you are so focused onyesterday.
So many of you have screwed upso many things in your life in
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the past.
You self-sabotage yourself andyou don't allow yourself to find
happiness, success, greatrelationships, because you think
you don't deserve it because ofwho you were or things you did.
Hey yo, hey, yo yo.
(00:58):
What up, logan?
Not much.
We're actually in the studiotogether yeah, it's been a
minute this has been fun.
I had to check the headset forbugs yeah, I did.
I did that an hour ago did wetell the world about that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
uh, I think so, but I'm not sure all right in case
we didn't anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
We're in a zoom meeting, um staff meeting, for
this is like a while ago.
This is weeks and weeks ago andall of a sudden, logan starts
freaking out and it's all onvideo.
He's's going nuts andapparently this is gross.
Our office gets cleaned on theregular, but this did happen, so
I'll be honest about it.
There was what do they callthem?
Earwigs.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, I called them pincher things, but apparently
they're called earwigs.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah them little pincher bugs.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That junk was in his headset and the earwig went for
your ear yep you lost it Ithought I was tweaking out
because I was like what is that?
And I just like kept doing that.
And then, like the fourth timeit happened, I like looked and
there was just a thing walkingaround the uh headset, so I was
stomping on it junk's bad dude.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Junk was really bad.
It was really bad so gross.
So I'm in here digging in myheadset making sure I don't have
any little creatures hangingout.
You know what I'm saying you'rejust saying but hey, that was
in the past so it doesn't matter, right it's over with like over
a month now yeah, you're overit, you don't lose sleep anymore
(02:20):
about it.
Nope, no, the dreams went away.
Yep, the nightmares all right,so I've just been from home for
a little bit well, at any rate,it's nice to be back in here
with you yeah we've had somereally cool podcasts drop in the
last couple weeks last monthand a half a lot of fun guests
we've had in a lot of dog stuff,a lot of dog stuff.
(02:42):
We've never done a lot of dogtalking and we've been talking
dogs a lot lately and that wasfun.
Learned a lot of dog stuff.
We've never done a lot of dogtalking and we've been talking
dogs a lot lately and that wasfun.
Learned a lot of stuff, hadsome really cool guests on um,
and they absolutely crushed it.
So hope everybody out there isenjoying the show.
Today, though, I want to talkabout something that I'm running
into with a good amount ofclients and stuff that not on
(03:03):
the dog training side, but likecoaching clients or clients that
work through our media companyand we help with, and then also
it's a lesson that I'mconstantly working with my sales
team on, and I think there's alot of opportunities,
opportunities for us to applythis to everyday life, and the
comment that I made and I makeoften, is that was yesterday.
(03:24):
And the comment that I made andI make often is that was
yesterday.
Right, if yesterday was a greatday at work, if it was and you
were highly productive.
Let's say you're, you're insales or you're a business owner
and it just was a top notchkiller freaking day.
That was yesterday.
It's over with, it's gone.
Now there's there's today, andyou've got to be dialed in and
you've got to be focused.
You can't be super high onthose good days, but the
(03:50):
opposite of that is you can't besuper low on the bad days
either.
You've got to understand thatwe're not in a world, we're not
in an economy, we're not in amarket where, hey, my business
is just going to steady, grow 8%to 12% a month, and it's always
going to be like that on theupward trajectory.
That's not the world we're inright now and there's going to
be more of an ebb and a flow andif your emotions are tied to
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that roller coaster, you'redoomed.
You're doomed, you're doomed.
You're not going to make goodbusiness decisions, you're not
going to make good personaldecisions.
You're not going to make goodpersonal decisions.
You're not going to make gooddecisions in your relationships
because you're all over theplace and either your team's
going to start hating you, yourwife is going to start hating
you, your husband's going tostart hating you, your boyfriend
, girlfriend's going to hate you.
(04:35):
Kids are going to hate youbecause they never know what
they're going to get Like.
You're all over the damn place,and so you don't get too high
on the good days, but you don'tget super down on the bad days
either, because yesterday's overwith Today is a new opportunity
.
Today is a chance to atone forwhatever shortfalls you had the
day before, or it's anopportunity to do better than
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you did the day before, even ifit was a great day.
Today's a new day and a newopportunity.
But if you stay living inyesterday, you're going to miss
out on every opportunity today.
And what I mean by that livingin yesterday, living in last
week, living in last month'sperformances.
I used to be in real estate backin the day, and when I was in
the real estate industry it wasalways funny to me because you
(05:25):
had your top performers and thatwas very consistent.
And then every once in a while,like once or twice a year, the
top performers would get beatout right and somebody would
come in and they'd have thehighest sales that month.
They sold the most houses,maybe the most units, maybe they
had the highest dollar volume,maybe it's mortgages and they
closed the most loans, or theyhad the highest loan origination
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fees, or whatever it may be,and then you would never hear
from them again.
You know, maybe nine monthslater, but they're not even
close to the top.
The month following that thattop month, and what?
These people?
I never took these peopleseriously because all they ever
showed was they had potential,but what they didn't have is the
discipline right.
And so they would crush it onemonth and they'd live off that
(06:09):
success and those wins for three, four, five months Like man.
Why am I broke?
Well, probably because yourlifestyle is based off that one
good month you had.
It's not based off the average.
When you take the next fivemonths off, and your numbers are
dog shit, you're basicallyunemployed.
When you average it next fivemonths off, and your numbers are
dog shit, you're basicallyunemployed when you average it
all out.
But they're talking like oh, I'ma top performer, I'm a top
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earner, and that's the worldthey live in and that's what
they think about.
They're stuck on that.
Then they have a down month.
Then they have a down month,then they have a down month,
they have a down month.
Now they're in their head I'mnot a performer, I a closer, I
don't execute.
So they'll get dialed in andthey'll get focused and then,
boom, have a good month.
But they never had two goodmonths in a row because, whether
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it was high or it was low,they're always living off of
that and they're focused off ofthat rather than seeing every
day, every week and every monthas a new opportunity to go out
there and get it and win again.
And so the top, top performers,who are always in your top two,
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top three, top five atexecution, man, they are steady.
They might have a little bit ofthis, but their focus, their
discipline, doesn't change.
Their focus and theirdiscipline, day in and day out,
is steady, right Days there.
Almeris said something the otherday to somebody that we were
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recruiting and she goes look,the biggest thing you can,
because they were talking abouthow they're very motivated.
And she's like I don't need youto be motivated, I need you to
be disciplined.
And I was like, ooh, girl,preach, that's good.
That's good Because disciplineis going to get you where you're
trying to go when motivationfails you.
You're not always motivated.
I know I'm not always motivated, but I'm still going to show up
(07:53):
at work, I'm still going toexecute, I'm going to still get
this done.
Hold on one second.
Everybody Got to click thislittle button right here.
This doesn't look like it'sworking though.
Little button right here.
This doesn't look like it'sworking though.
So that's going to be a minute.
Yeah, these phones are messedup.
Man, shout out to verizon, yousuck.
I've been with you forever,forever.
We've got so many damn lines.
This phone I shouldn't evendone this.
(08:16):
I shouldn't even taken this onto try to do it from my phone.
Junk's whack, logan.
Oh, here we go, here we go.
I think we're good.
Are we going to have success?
Oh, oh, success Lunch is on theway.
Nice Like that, how you just didthat little transition Because
I stuck with it.
Right, I didn't give up.
(08:37):
The phone's got me unmotivated,but I'm disciplined and I know
why people got to eat.
So I'm going to click clap,click clap until the chicky
shows up.
Discipline will get you whereyou're trying to go.
When your motivation fails you.
Everybody's New Year'sresolutions fail.
They're not not motivated.
They're motivated, but they'renot disciplined to maintain them
(08:58):
.
Right, everybody.
Because they're motivated,they're not disciplined.
Maybe it's health, maybe it'swork.
Motivated, they're notdisciplined.
Maybe it's health, maybe it'swork, maybe it's more time with
family, who knows what it is.
They're motivated by something,but they're not disciplined
enough to take action.
Discipline will take you wayfurther than motivation ever
will.
So how do you keep yourselfdisciplined?
You keep yourself disciplinedbecause discipline is about the
things that you can control.
Motivation is about the thingsthat may inspire you.
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Motivation is about the thingsthat entice you but really you
can't control If you'remotivated by the potential
outcome of your hard work andefforts.
You're motivated by thefinancial gains, by the
notoriety, by the success.
You really have no control overthat part.
What you do have control overis the discipline it takes to
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take every step necessary thatputs you in the best likelihood
of being successful.
People are like well, I deserveto be successful.
You don't deserve anything whenit comes to business and life
and success.
If you put forth the effort,you make good decisions, you're
(10:02):
constantly growing, constantlyeducating yourself, trying to
look for ways to improve,learning from your failures,
trying to be a better humanbeing.
You deserve the opportunity atsuccess.
You deserve the opportunity toput forth the effort and take
the steps necessary to besuccessful, but the key thing
(10:22):
here is what you deserve.
You have to change yourperspective.
I don't deserve any of myemployees.
I don't deserve any of mybusiness partners.
I don't deserve the mentors Ihave in my life.
I'm blessed and humbled to havethe opportunity to work with
these individuals and thesepeople and learn from them and
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help invest into them and pourinto them so that I can help
them achieve their goals.
And if they achieve their goals, that probably helps me achieve
my goals.
I deserve the opportunity.
I don't deserve the end resultyet, because if I deserved that
end result, I would already havethe end result.
I don't, but I thank God everyday that I have the opportunity
(11:05):
to keep striving for it and it'sthat discipline piece.
Now, if I'm in a situation whereI get hung up on what happened
yesterday, am I going to takethe right steps today to get
where I need to go?
The answer is absolutely not.
If I'm 24 hours later, I'mstill celebrating a big sales
day.
Well, if I'm celebrating, thenI'm not working.
I'm not talking to new clientsthat need our help.
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If I'm hung up celebrating, orif it was a terrible sales day
or a terrible sales week, andI'm just in my head, why doesn't
anybody pick us?
Why aren't people answering thephone?
And I'm ignoring the fact thatwe got 50, 60, 70, 100 leads
every day coming into us, but Ihung up on why the hundred leads
from yesterday didn't answertheir phone because it's
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Memorial day and people arehanging out with their families.
Am I going to be able to executeon that opportunity I have in
front of me now?
Absolutely not, cause I'mliving in the past.
So if yesterday doesn't matter,that means last week doesn't
matter and it means last monthdoesn't matter.
You got to focus on today.
You got to be disciplined abouttoday.
Now, what does matter aboutyesterday, the week before and
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the month before and the yearsbefore.
Well, the lessons you learned,but you don't have to stop
moving forward in order toimplement the lessons you've
learned along the way.
We got to stop getting hung upon yesterday, though, and so
many of you are so focused onyesterday.
So many of you have screwed upso many things in your life in
the past.
You self-sabotage yourself andyou don't allow yourself to find
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happiness, success, greatrelationships, because you think
you don't deserve it because ofwho you were or things you did.
Guys, I've done so much stupidshit in my life.
I've ruined so manyrelationships in my life.
I've made so many bad decisionsin my life.
Gotta learn from it.
You gotta keep working and yougotta keep going and you gotta
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keep trying to improve.
I don't deserve success.
I deserve the opportunity to besuccessful.
I deserve the opportunity toimpact people's lives.
I deserve the opportunity tochange my life.
I deserve the opportunity tochange my family's life.
I deserve the opportunity toalter the future of the next
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generations of the Wilson family.
I deserve the chance to do it,but I've got to be disciplined
enough to do it, and there'sbeen seasons where I was very
hung up on mistakes I've madeLong, long time ago.
You know, when we went bankrupt, we lost everything.
It took me a while to get outof that.
I'm not taking opportunities.
(13:39):
I didn't feel like I deservedopportunities and it took time
opportunities.
And it took time.
I had to get myself right Notperfect, far from perfect, but I
had to get myself right to getmy confidence up a little bit,
get that internal swagger up alittle bit to where I feel like
I deserve the opportunity.
Now you're given theopportunity, what are you going
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to do with it?
Are you disciplined enough todo something with it?
It doesn't mean every dayyou're motivated.
You're not going to be.
I already talked about that.
That's where the disciplinecomes in.
Yesterday is only worth itslessons.
Last week is only worth itslessons Last year and the years
before that.
It's only worth its lessons.
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Are you showing up today?
The question the recruit askedme yesterday what do you like
most about what you guys do?
And my answer was becauseyesterday doesn't matter.
That was my answer to her.
Every day I wake up and it's anew opportunity.
That's it.
If I had a bad day with myfamily yesterday, if I was being
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a shithead and, you know,grumpy about stuff and didn't
have a great day with, with withDevin, cause I was less than
kind or understanding orcompassionate or I'd been in
meetings and talking all day andlistening to people all day and
I didn't want to hear anythingwhen I got home and I probably
didn't communicate that in thebest way.
(15:03):
Logan's never witnessed thatbefore.
Um, no, never, never.
It's like I hear you.
I just need you to understand.
I don't care right, like whatthe hell?
Who says that to somebody?
But I said that to devin, I'vesaid that to logan before.
Like I don't understand what'swrong with me.
Y'all like shit.
Like there's moments, okay, butnow I've gone to bed, it's the
(15:23):
next day.
I have an opportunity to be likehey, son, I'm sorry, I'm not
really a shithead, I was just,it was a moment.
Hey, devin, I'm sorry, I was ashithead.
You've been with me long enoughto know that I'm not like an
overarching shithead, I just hada shithead moment and luckily,
because of God's love for mealone, I have a wife and kids
(15:47):
who have so much grace for me.
They don't make me live in thatmoment.
They let me move on from thatmoment and try again the next
day, right, and that's.
That's another thing about likeour family kind of as a whole.
Like we have teenage kidslogan's gonna be 20 in december,
kiki just turned 17.
They do some stupid shitsometimes like that's just, yeah
(16:10):
, yeah right.
Like for father's day I said Iwanted a blackstone grill and um
, we're horrible gift givers inthe wilson fam.
Well, maybe I am oh logan'spretty bad at this too.
If we get something forsomebody we care about, it's
very difficult for us to notgive it to them.
So a lot of times, like we'regreat gift givers, we just
(16:30):
aren't good at keeping it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I gave Kiki her birthday gift like months before
she forgot about it.
Yeah, it was her birthday right.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So he re-gifted it and it was hysterical.
But if I get something forDevin like, I want to see
Devin's reaction, I want to seeDevin's reaction.
I want to see her response.
I'm so excited to give her thegift, or, with the kids, like
I've always.
Last year we got Kiki a car forher 16th birthday.
We had that car for like fivedays.
It was the worst five days ever.
It was the worst five days everbecause I had to sit here and
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look at this car and I wanted toget her response.
But we waited till her birthdayand that was fine.
But anyway, I said I wantedthis blackstone.
Devin and jenna super sweet.
They went and got theblackstone for me.
Um, got it set up and logan, heis the smash burger king.
He's gonna make us smashburgers for dinner on sunday
nope, monday, monday.
(17:20):
So, um, we get this thing puttogether.
It's on the back deck.
Logan's got all his stuff.
He's coming in and out with allof his things.
The grill is on because we hadto season it, so it was hot as
all get out.
Neither of us have used one ofthese things before.
He uses a griddle in the housewhen he makes these smash
burgers, logan.
How fast do those burgers cook?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I didn't even have a chance to grab stuff and flip
them.
They were already cooked.
Usually I wait a couple minuteson the griddle.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So I'm jumping in, I'm trying to help.
He's grabbing buns, he'sgrabbing seeds.
It was chaos, but we knockedout some delicious ass burgers.
They were really good.
But the funny thing was I waslike, son, you got to get some
butter, throw that on thegriddle when you cook this stuff
up.
And so I see my son walkingthrough the house with a palm
full of butter and apparently itwas just what was left of the
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stick of butter.
It was on like a little buttertray.
So Logan grabs the butter, goesoutside, and my immediate
response when I see things likethis the hell are you doing?
Like what?
What are you doing?
I got the butter, I'm gonna goput it on the grill, and so I
was like son.
First of all, that's not enoughbutter.
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Why is it just in your hand?
So now he goes to the fridge,finds a stick of butter it was
wrapped in paper.
It was in the garage, in thatfridge, not.
We don't just keep butterlaying in the garage, so it's in
the fridge.
In the garage he now fridge.
We don't just keep butterlaying in the garage, so it's in
the fridge.
In the garage he now has a fullstick in paper of butter.
Takes that outside, no problem.
30 seconds later, my son who'sbrilliant, by the way is walking
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back through the house with thebutter that was in his hand a
few minutes ago, which hasdefinitely started to melt by
now, in his hand again.
I lost it.
I lost it.
I just was so shook by thethought process that's taking
place in this moment Now.
We worked through it.
(19:16):
I said some things Logan, it'skind of funny, cause he's just
like whatever and kind of fussedat me.
And then he goes back to thegrill.
We don't.
These interactions happen kindof regularly between someone in
our house.
None of us get so hung up onthe silliness of yesterday,
(19:39):
right like by time.
Like we had a great dinner, itwas delicious.
Tell you good nightnight.
Tell you I love you.
Love you too, dad, I'll see youtomorrow.
And it's the same thing.
He and Kiki got into it theother day.
It was totally crazy.
Kiki fires off, she goes fromzero to 100, like that.
I don't know where she gets itfrom, probably her mom.
(20:00):
Do you think so too, logan?
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Do you do you think so too, logan?
Yeah, do you think it's mom?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
for sure, for sure.
Yeah, definitely devon.
I don't know who else it wouldbe.
Yeah, it surely isn't me.
I'm mr calm, cool and collectedon a daily basis.
Well, anyway, they get into it.
I find out about it, have aconversation like they're not
hung up on it.
It will become a joke now likewe'll rag on each other about it
, but the reality is, yeah, sheoverstepped.
She really irritated herbrother, but 10 minutes after
(20:30):
that had she called and likelogan, I need your help with
something.
We don't operate where we'rehung up on someone pissing you
off 10 minutes ago, he's thereto take care of his sister and
do whatever she needs, right?
If I'm a shitty dad one day,they're not holding that against
me the next day.
If they screw something superstupid up, we're going to talk
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about it and we move on from it.
If it ever comes up again,typically it's in a poking fun
way, busting balls in our family, but we're not like hung up on
it, judging each other, right?
I mean, that's just not how itis, because yesterday doesn't
matter.
We have today together,everybody's healthy, everybody's
happy.
We're so fortunate that that isthe case Everyone's happy and
(21:16):
healthy, like we have anopportunity to try again today.
Yesterday doesn't matter andit's even if it's good shit,
like okay, that was cool, it's agreat memory.
Something didn't great happen.
There was a lesson learned, butwe're moved on and focused on
today.
Allow yourself the freedom tomove on.
Allow yourself the freedom tojust say I'm sorry.
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Another great example of thisKatie Peyton, almaris, devin and
I went on a little trip lastweek and we're flying back.
We're coming through theairport and Katie got hung up in
security.
Katie and I travel together alot and it is rare that there is
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not some sort of little issue.
That's typically really funny.
Well, this particular TSA agentthey weren't super cool and it
became a bit of a thing for noreason whatsoever.
They were giving Katie a hardtime about something I chimed in
Al.
I chimed in Almaris chimed init didn't help the situation at
all and it got pretty stupid.
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So Katie gets on and goesthrough.
Then they scan my passport.
This other lady scans mypassport and something pops up
and like, can you scan it again?
Scan it again.
Something pops up and I say hey, could it?
Could it be that the thingscanning my picture is is
rotated sideways, like should Itilt my head, should it's, and
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they didn't think that was funnyand clearly that couldn't
possibly be the issue that I flyweekly, basically, and I've
never once had a problem goingthrough that particular part.
But there was a problem.
This camera was tilted and soit changed my face.
So it's scanning me sidewaysand obviously he's trying to do
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facial recognition and I thoughtmaybe it was a computer thing.
Next thing, I know they get themanager to come over.
While this is happening, I I'mfussing at Katie.
We're yelling back and forth ateach other as she's going
through the, the body scanner,and the, the luggage part.
So I'm sure we're really makinga lot of friends.
There was no line in thisbeautiful little airport we were
at.
Now there's about 30 peoplelined up behind me, peyton and
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Almaris, like Josh, what are youdoing?
And I'm like man, I don't know.
Manager comes over.
He's looking at stuff, clickingthings, looking at me, looking
at my passport.
Next thing, you know, thesupervisor comes over.
This dude comes over with abook.
He has a binder and he startspulling pictures out of this
binder and he's like picture andlooking at me and asking me to
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scan my passport again.
I'm like wait a minute, arethey trying to match me up with
somebody in this damn book again?
I'm like, wait a minute.
Are they trying to match me upwith somebody in this damn book?
Again?
I fly all the time, no issues.
So finally they let me through.
I get through the scanner.
They won't.
They make me take my shoes off,to make me take my hat off, to
make me take my belt off, allthings Nobody ever makes me do
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Cause I'm pre-check, all right,but I said, sir, I'm pre-check,
I don't't, I don't need to takethis stuff off, correct?
Well, did they give you theblue ticket?
Like blue ticket?
No, I was just over there withthe supervisor, the manager, um,
you know, jesus himself, likeall everybody, was involved in
me getting through the check-incounter.
He's like no blue ticket, nopre-check.
Oh, sir, here's my boardingpass, I'm pre-check.
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Sir, here's my boarding pass.
I'm pre-check.
No blue ticket, no pre-check.
I need your boots off, I needyour hat off, I need your belt
off, no problem.
So now I'm taking off all thisstuff.
And who wears boots on a plane?
Me, because I don't got to takethem off.
So now I'm taking them off.
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Now I'm sweating.
We're in California, where Inever sweat, by the way.
So I'm pissed off because thisis whole situation.
I get through the security thing.
I grabbed my shit and I startyelling at Katie.
I'm pissed off because I justknew that it was her fault that
I was getting in trouble withTSA because she pissed them all
off.
Two minutes later I look at her.
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I say you know what, katie?
I apologize If someone's.
If that what was happening toyou was happening to me and
people started chiming in, Iwould have lost my shit.
I'd have gone nuts.
I would have gone nuts.
I'm sorry.
And she looked at me and saysI'm sorry too.
We've already moved on.
We continue on to the plane.
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We get on the plane and fiveminutes after they close the
doors and we're getting ready topush back, all of our phones
start beeping your flight's beencanceled.
So we all get to get off theplane and we're trying to figure
out what to do.
And all the sheep go and get inline at the airport and they're
trying to figure out all thisstuff.
I'm like let's get the hell outof here and figure it out.
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And I'm thankful.
Thankful that we have the means, we have the ability to not be
stuck.
I'm thankful that for the mostpart there wasn't a place I had
to be that night.
There wasn't that pressure.
There was some pressure withsome of our companions and we
got them out earlier.
But for the most part it wasfine.
But here's the point of story.
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We ended up being in Californiafor another two days.
Devin, katie and I, almaris andPeyton.
We got out the next morningearly.
We had a great time.
We had a great time.
Katie and I totally embarrassedeach other in the airport in
front of people.
I don't do that.
She doesn't do that Like frontof people.
I don't do that.
She doesn't do that.
Like we were legit fussing ateach other.
It's ridiculous.
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I'm so embarrassed by how I wasacting.
It didn't mess up a singleminute of our time.
We got out of that airport, weapologized, we moved on.
Honestly, it became a funny assstory that we joked about that
night the next day, tellingother people about it.
Poor Devin, she zips rightthrough security, she walks to
the other end of the terminal,goes to the bathroom, comes back
None of us are still there andshe's like what the hell's going
on.
And then here comes Katiethrough, here comes me through
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and it's just freaking tornadoand Devin's like holy shit, like
can y'all relax?
Can you guys chill out?
10 minutes ago, basicallyyesterday, it's done and over
with.
What are we going to do withthat rest of that time?
And we had a great timetogether.
We had a great time togetherMoving on.
There was a lesson learned inthat moment, in that situation,
for all of us Could have handledit better, could have handled
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it differently, acknowledgedwhere we screwed up and we just
moved on.
And if it gets referenced again, it's a joke.
So when the recruit asked mewhat do you like most about what
you do?
Why do you love it so much?
Because yesterday doesn'tmatter.
Whether I was the greatest orthe worst, yesterday doesn't
matter.
I got today to make it right.
I've got today to get at batagain and give it another shot.
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I deserve the opportunity to besuccessful.
I deserve the opportunity tomake it right.
I deserve the opportunity toput in the work to win.
I deserve the opportunity toshow my kids how much I love
them.
I deserve the opportunity toshow my wife, day in and day out
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, how much she means to me andhow special she is to me.
I deserve the opportunity to goafter whatever I want, and so
do you.
Stop sabotaging yourself.
The world's going to throwenough shit at you where you
don't need to do it yourself.
Life is hard enough.
Life is random enough.
The stuff I hear about on adaily basis of things people and
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families are going through andpeople who are passing away, and
accidents that are happeningand kids are deathly ill and
just tragedies no one deservesthose things.
It's just life.
It's just life.
But if you wake up the nextmorning, you deserve the
opportunity to go again.
So do you.
We're going to catch you nexttime on the Big Dog Podcast.
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We love you.
We appreciate you.
Hope this helps to catch younext time on the Big Dog Podcast
.
We love you.
We appreciate you.
Hope this helps somebody.
I know it helped me.
Son, I'll catch you next time.
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