August 21, 2023 • 9 mins
Welcome to another exciting episode of the Limitless Mindset Podcast with your host, Blake Clark. Join us as Blake dives into the world of real estate, mindset, and entrepreneurship, guiding you towards realizing your limitless potential. In this episode, Blake reflects on the importance of embracing continuous growth and avoiding complacency, both in business and life.
Have you ever started strong, feeling like you're at the top of your game, only to find that over time, your growth stalls? Blake identifies this phenomenon as complacency, a trap that both individuals and businesses can fall into. He recounts real-world examples from his own journey and the experiences of agents he's worked with, highlighting the common pattern of early success leading to a plateau and eventual decline.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- The Cycle of Success and Complacency: Blake illustrates how individuals and businesses often experience a burst of growth at the beginning, only to slow down and plateau due to a sense of achievement. He uses relatable examples from his real estate background to demonstrate this cycle.
- The Dangers of Complacency: Blake explains how complacency can be detrimental to your long-term success. He draws parallels to well-known businesses that failed to adapt, showcasing the consequences of resisting change and innovation.
- Embracing a Growth Mindset: Blake emphasizes the importance of maintaining a growth-oriented mindset. He shares personal anecdotes of his dedication to continuous learning and evolving strategies, leading to his ongoing success in the ever-changing real estate landscape.
- Setting Higher Goals: Blake encourages listeners to set higher goals and push their boundaries, regardless of past achievements. He explains how yesterday's wins should inspire, not hinder, the pursuit of excellence.
As Blake guides you through this episode, you'll gain insights into recognizing and overcoming complacency, making continual growth a cornerstone of your personal and professional journey. Don't miss out on this valuable episode that provides actionable strategies for staying ahead, embracing change, and achieving greatness. Thank you for tuning in to the Limitless Mindset Podcast, where your potential knows no bounds.
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Blake (00:00):
Welcome to the Limitless Mindset Podcast.
My name is Blake Clark and I amthe founder and visionary of
Limitless Real Estate and alsothe team lead of the Clark team.
My goal with this podcast is toshow you that your
possibilities are trulylimitless with the right mindset
and outlook on life.
On this podcast, you're goingto hear from not only myself but
also other members within ourbrokerage, as well as my team,
and we're going to be discussingall things real estate, mindset
(00:23):
, goal setting and what it takesto build a good business and
succeed in life.
Thanks so much for joining usand welcome Welcome to another
episode of the Limitless MindsetPodcast, and I just wanted to
take a quick moment to say thankyou all for tuning in today and
listening to the podcast.
Thank you, guys.
For those of you who share theshow as well, it's been awesome
(00:46):
to hear some feedback from youguys.
I love getting some of the DMstalking about how you guys are
utilizing some of thisinformation within your own
businesses and how it is helpingyou.
Obviously, that's the reasonthat I do it.
I don't charge any money forthis podcast.
I don't make any money.
I do this solely out of thepurpose to help you guys and
share some of the things that Ihave learned along the way that
could help you in your ownbusinesses.
(01:06):
With that being said, I wantedto go over something today.
I'm going to make this quickand right to the point, but I
think it's extremely beneficialfor most of you guys to
understand, and this is going tohelp those of you guys that are
not only business owners butalso employees within a business
, and the topic that I wanted totalk about today with you guys
is complacency within theworkplace or complacency as a
(01:27):
small business and entrepreneur.
I can tell you guys, over myyears of coaching people, over
my years of managing people,over my years of being an
employee myself and workingwithin companies, one of the
biggest things I see happen iswhen people tend to, you know,
start off as an organization.
They start off as a neweremployee, and we've all seen
them where they come out andthey become absolute rock stars.
This also is the same for smallbusiness owners and
(01:48):
entrepreneurs, where maybe theystart a business and they get a
head start ahead of everybodyelse, where they just kind of
have, you know, the right drive,the right ambition, the right
motivation behind them and theytake off as a business owner and
they get a lot of tractionright out of the gate.
And what happens is is you gothrough this cycle where, as a
business owner, as an employeewithin the company, you start to
see some success, you start toget recognition, you start to,
(02:11):
you know, kind of feel likeyou're on top of the hill right
King of the hill, as they wouldsay and then what happens is you
tend to stop growing and youtend to stop developing and you
do what's called a level outmode within your guys's business
.
The problem with this is isthat, over time, if you tend to
do really well and you becomethe rock star of a business, or
you become the rock star of asmall business that everybody's
(02:32):
given you recognition for, youstart to make a little bit of
money and you think things aregoing really well and you know
your hesitant to continue togrow because you just don't
think you need to at that pointin time.
And let me share with you guysthe reason you don't want this
to happen within your guys'sbusiness.
So I'm going to share anexample that I see this in the
real estate space.
Obviously, I'm in real estateand I see this with agents.
All the time where they come outthe gate they're hungry,
(02:54):
they're ambitious, they'remotivated, you know they're
driving, they're doingeverything they possibly can in
their business, they're puttingin the work and then rightfully
so they begin to get sometraction and they begin to get
some business from all of theefforts that they put in,
because they are hungry,motivated and driven, like we
said.
Then, over time, as they startto get a little bit of, you know
, momentum, a little bit oftraction, they tend to level out
(03:14):
.
They don't get as hungry asthey were, they don't focus on
continued growth.
They don't continue on, youknow, focus on continued trying
to find new ways to do things.
And then what happens is, aftera while, they kind of plateau.
So sales are good, they'redoing okay.
They're not growing, they'renot shrinking, they're just
doing okay because, in theireyes, they were king of the hill
within the organization orthey're king of the hill within
whatever small business industrythat they're in.
(03:35):
Now what happens is, as thingscontinue to develop and go on
with time, other people withinthat organization are going to
come in, or other people thatare currently in that
organization are going tocontinue to have personal
development and growth and theyare now going to rise Eventually
, as time goes on, they're goingto pass the skill sets of the
individual they got heavy rightout the gate, crushing it, and
eventually that person is nowbottom of the stack and that
(03:57):
person actually phases out.
Or that small business ownerthat once had all of the
momentum, everything going intheir favor, eventually falls
out of business because theystopped growing.
I've seen this myself inbusiness, where I started off as
a you know brand new realestate agent.
I was competing against agentsthat have been in the business
for a really, really long time.
I was extremely motivated, Iwas extremely hungry.
I put in the work.
(04:18):
I constantly was looking togrow, learn, evolve, find new
ways to do things and if I hadto be honest with you guys,
that's the only thing that'sreally carried me through
success these days is I'mconstantly looking for new ways
to do things right.
There are certain things that Ido do within my business that
are the same I've always done,such as consistency,
conversations with people, butI'm always looking for new ways
(04:38):
to market.
I'm always looking for new waysto streamline the processes.
I'm always looking for newoptions to provide my customers
and clients with to stayrelevant within today's industry
, and I've passed a lot ofpeople up that have been in the
business much longer than I have, simply because they were
unwilling to adapt and changeand potentially learn new things
.
I've seen this happen time andtime again with new agents.
(04:59):
They come into our brokerage,new agents that have come on my
team.
They've came out.
They've been absolutelyphenomenal.
They killed it.
They put in the work.
They were hungry.
They got a few months of salesunderneath and belt, thought
they were doing pretty good,thought they had everything
figured out.
They stopped developing, theystopped growing, and then what
happened was, after a while,everybody else that was maybe
not growing as fast eventuallycaught up and then surpassed
(05:19):
them because they wereconstantly willing to learn.
So, while their path to the topmay not have been as fast,
eventually it's kind of like thestory of the tortoise and the
hare, where those peopleeventually do go on and move
past the what was considered thesuperstar of the industry or
the superstar within thatbusiness, and after a while that
person then struggles with notmaintaining the top status
within that company or topstatus within that industry.
(05:42):
They get frustrated and in somecases they actually fall out of
business, which I've seenhappen quite a bit.
So the point of all this for youguys is that you guys need to
constantly focus on alwayslearning to evolve and always
learning to grow and alwayssetting that bar higher and
always moving Right.
Don't celebrate yesterday'swins and ride out on that.
What you guys do today and whatyou guys win and the
accomplishments you guys haveshould be behind you and you're
(06:03):
always focusing on doing newthings.
You don't want to be thatperson that basically gets their
ego so big that they think theydon't need to learn anything
new, they don't need to evolve,they don't need to challenge
themselves, they don't need togrow, because if you keep that
mindset, eventually you will getpassed up in business.
There's been a ton of businessesin the past that have gone out.
Blockbuster was replaced byNetflix, if you guys remember
(06:23):
right, because they wereunwilling to adapt to changes.
At one point they had abusiness model completely
figured out the newspaper howmany newspapers have you guys
seen that have gone out ofbusiness?
Because at one point, that wasconsidered the best way to get
news and media out to people,until social media came along
and developed a better way.
Right.
Had these businesses had aforward thinking mindset, didn't
get it in their heads that theywere the best in the industry
(06:45):
and they didn't need to changeanything, they probably would
still be around today if they'rewilling to adapt and evolve and
change and constantly strive tofind new ways to stay on top of
cutting edge technology withintheir business and industry, to
keep them as a leader.
So don't let this be you inbusiness.
Don't let your guys, as atemporary success, get to your
head and tell yourself that youdon't need to learn anything new
(07:06):
and that you've got it allfigured out.
That's not to say that there'snot core principles that you're
doing today and a solid workethic that got you to where you
are, but you guys can't payattention or ignore, I should
say, the things that are goingto carry you ahead and just
assume that you know, becauseyou guys have it all figured out
today, that that won't changetomorrow.
Again, it's all about growth,it's all about progression.
It's always about stayinghungry.
It's always about staying aheadof the curve.
(07:27):
You guys have to make sure youput a focus on this so that
you're not one of those agentsor you're not one of those
lenders.
You're not one of those titlepeople that eventually, yes, you
are doing very well today, butover time, everybody passes you
up because you're unwilling toadapt and learn.
You think you got it allfigured out and then now your
business is gone and you guysfall out of the business.
We saw this happen through 2020, 2021, and especially today in
(07:49):
this market and industry, wherethings look very different than
they did in 2015, 16.
I've seen people that wereabsolutely dominating three to
four years ago that today arehardly doing anything because
they were unwilling to adapt,they were unwilling to change,
they lost their hunger, theydropped their drive, they lost
their ambition because theirsuccess had gotten to their head
early on and they didn't thinkthey had anything else to learn
and evolve.
(08:10):
And again, guys, this is theone thing that has carried me on
.
And for those of you guys thathave been following me for a
long time on social media andstarted with me from day one in
my business, you guys have seenhow much I've grown and how much
I've evolved.
And even now, if you go backand look at my marketing, you
guys look at my systems, youguys look at my processes, even
my thought process on the waythat I handle things over time
and experience.
That's the only thing that'skept me alive this long in this
(08:32):
business.
It's the only thing that'sgoing to continue to carry me on
and I hope that you guys takethat, you know, to heat in your
guys' own personal business.
As always, I hope you guys havean absolutely crazy, amazing,
beautiful week out there.
Make sure you guys are settingthat bar high.
Make sure you guys are settingyour goals high.
Make sure you guys are notletting your foot off the gas.
Don't live on yesterday's wins.
Yesterday's wins were great,but today's a new day.
(08:53):
This is a new week.
Make sure you guys are outthere focusing on setting that
bar high and get out there andlet's crush it.
If you guys found value intoday's episode, I asked that
you guys share this with anybodythat you think may benefit from
hearing this.
Obviously, I do this for free.
I do this to help you guys.
I do this to help, obviously,impact other people that are
looking to grow and scale andimprove their life.
(09:13):
So all I ask is that you guysdo share this with somebody that
you think it could help andbenefit.
I greatly appreciate it.
Welcome to the Limitless Mindset Podcast.
My name is Blake Clark and I amthe founder and visionary of
Limitless Real Estate and alsothe team lead of the Clark team.
My goal with this podcast is toshow you that your
possibilities are trulylimitless with the right mindset
and outlook on life.
On this podcast, you're goingto hear from not only myself but
also other members within ourbrokerage, as well as my team,
and we're going to be discussingall things real estate, mindset
(00:23):
, goal setting and what it takesto build a good business and
succeed in life.
Thanks so much for joining usand welcome Welcome to another
episode of the Limitless MindsetPodcast, and I just wanted to
take a quick moment to say thankyou all for tuning in today and
listening to the podcast.
Thank you, guys.
For those of you who share theshow as well, it's been awesome
(00:46):
to hear some feedback from youguys.
I love getting some of the DMstalking about how you guys are
utilizing some of thisinformation within your own
businesses and how it is helpingyou.
Obviously, that's the reasonthat I do it.
I don't charge any money forthis podcast.
I don't make any money.
I do this solely out of thepurpose to help you guys and
share some of the things that Ihave learned along the way that
could help you in your ownbusinesses.
(01:06):
With that being said, I wantedto go over something today.
I'm going to make this quickand right to the point, but I
think it's extremely beneficialfor most of you guys to
understand, and this is going tohelp those of you guys that are
not only business owners butalso employees within a business
, and the topic that I wanted totalk about today with you guys
is complacency within theworkplace or complacency as a
(01:27):
small business and entrepreneur.
I can tell you guys, over myyears of coaching people, over
my years of managing people,over my years of being an
employee myself and workingwithin companies, one of the
biggest things I see happen iswhen people tend to, you know,
start off as an organization.
They start off as a neweremployee, and we've all seen
them where they come out andthey become absolute rock stars.
This also is the same for smallbusiness owners and
(01:48):
entrepreneurs, where maybe theystart a business and they get a
head start ahead of everybodyelse, where they just kind of
have, you know, the right drive,the right ambition, the right
motivation behind them and theytake off as a business owner and
they get a lot of tractionright out of the gate.
And what happens is is you gothrough this cycle where, as a
business owner, as an employeewithin the company, you start to
see some success, you start toget recognition, you start to,
(02:11):
you know, kind of feel likeyou're on top of the hill right
King of the hill, as they wouldsay and then what happens is you
tend to stop growing and youtend to stop developing and you
do what's called a level outmode within your guys's business
.
The problem with this is isthat, over time, if you tend to
do really well and you becomethe rock star of a business, or
you become the rock star of asmall business that everybody's
(02:32):
given you recognition for, youstart to make a little bit of
money and you think things aregoing really well and you know
your hesitant to continue togrow because you just don't
think you need to at that pointin time.
And let me share with you guysthe reason you don't want this
to happen within your guys'sbusiness.
So I'm going to share anexample that I see this in the
real estate space.
Obviously, I'm in real estateand I see this with agents.
All the time where they come outthe gate they're hungry,
(02:54):
they're ambitious, they'remotivated, you know they're
driving, they're doingeverything they possibly can in
their business, they're puttingin the work and then rightfully
so they begin to get sometraction and they begin to get
some business from all of theefforts that they put in,
because they are hungry,motivated and driven, like we
said.
Then, over time, as they startto get a little bit of, you know
, momentum, a little bit oftraction, they tend to level out
(03:14):
.
They don't get as hungry asthey were, they don't focus on
continued growth.
They don't continue on, youknow, focus on continued trying
to find new ways to do things.
And then what happens is, aftera while, they kind of plateau.
So sales are good, they'redoing okay.
They're not growing, they'renot shrinking, they're just
doing okay because, in theireyes, they were king of the hill
within the organization orthey're king of the hill within
whatever small business industrythat they're in.
(03:35):
Now what happens is, as thingscontinue to develop and go on
with time, other people withinthat organization are going to
come in, or other people thatare currently in that
organization are going tocontinue to have personal
development and growth and theyare now going to rise Eventually
, as time goes on, they're goingto pass the skill sets of the
individual they got heavy rightout the gate, crushing it, and
eventually that person is nowbottom of the stack and that
(03:57):
person actually phases out.
Or that small business ownerthat once had all of the
momentum, everything going intheir favor, eventually falls
out of business because theystopped growing.
I've seen this myself inbusiness, where I started off as
a you know brand new realestate agent.
I was competing against agentsthat have been in the business
for a really, really long time.
I was extremely motivated, Iwas extremely hungry.
I put in the work.
(04:18):
I constantly was looking togrow, learn, evolve, find new
ways to do things and if I hadto be honest with you guys,
that's the only thing that'sreally carried me through
success these days is I'mconstantly looking for new ways
to do things right.
There are certain things that Ido do within my business that
are the same I've always done,such as consistency,
conversations with people, butI'm always looking for new ways
(04:38):
to market.
I'm always looking for new waysto streamline the processes.
I'm always looking for newoptions to provide my customers
and clients with to stayrelevant within today's industry
, and I've passed a lot ofpeople up that have been in the
business much longer than I have, simply because they were
unwilling to adapt and changeand potentially learn new things
.
I've seen this happen time andtime again with new agents.
(04:59):
They come into our brokerage,new agents that have come on my
team.
They've came out.
They've been absolutelyphenomenal.
They killed it.
They put in the work.
They were hungry.
They got a few months of salesunderneath and belt, thought
they were doing pretty good,thought they had everything
figured out.
They stopped developing, theystopped growing, and then what
happened was, after a while,everybody else that was maybe
not growing as fast eventuallycaught up and then surpassed
(05:19):
them because they wereconstantly willing to learn.
So, while their path to the topmay not have been as fast,
eventually it's kind of like thestory of the tortoise and the
hare, where those peopleeventually do go on and move
past the what was considered thesuperstar of the industry or
the superstar within thatbusiness, and after a while that
person then struggles with notmaintaining the top status
within that company or topstatus within that industry.
(05:42):
They get frustrated and in somecases they actually fall out of
business, which I've seenhappen quite a bit.
So the point of all this for youguys is that you guys need to
constantly focus on alwayslearning to evolve and always
learning to grow and alwayssetting that bar higher and
always moving Right.
Don't celebrate yesterday'swins and ride out on that.
What you guys do today and whatyou guys win and the
accomplishments you guys haveshould be behind you and you're
(06:03):
always focusing on doing newthings.
You don't want to be thatperson that basically gets their
ego so big that they think theydon't need to learn anything
new, they don't need to evolve,they don't need to challenge
themselves, they don't need togrow, because if you keep that
mindset, eventually you will getpassed up in business.
There's been a ton of businessesin the past that have gone out.
Blockbuster was replaced byNetflix, if you guys remember
(06:23):
right, because they wereunwilling to adapt to changes.
At one point they had abusiness model completely
figured out the newspaper howmany newspapers have you guys
seen that have gone out ofbusiness?
Because at one point, that wasconsidered the best way to get
news and media out to people,until social media came along
and developed a better way.
Right.
Had these businesses had aforward thinking mindset, didn't
get it in their heads that theywere the best in the industry
(06:45):
and they didn't need to changeanything, they probably would
still be around today if they'rewilling to adapt and evolve and
change and constantly strive tofind new ways to stay on top of
cutting edge technology withintheir business and industry, to
keep them as a leader.
So don't let this be you inbusiness.
Don't let your guys, as atemporary success, get to your
head and tell yourself that youdon't need to learn anything new
(07:06):
and that you've got it allfigured out.
That's not to say that there'snot core principles that you're
doing today and a solid workethic that got you to where you
are, but you guys can't payattention or ignore, I should
say, the things that are goingto carry you ahead and just
assume that you know, becauseyou guys have it all figured out
today, that that won't changetomorrow.
Again, it's all about growth,it's all about progression.
It's always about stayinghungry.
It's always about staying aheadof the curve.
(07:27):
You guys have to make sure youput a focus on this so that
you're not one of those agentsor you're not one of those
lenders.
You're not one of those titlepeople that eventually, yes, you
are doing very well today, butover time, everybody passes you
up because you're unwilling toadapt and learn.
You think you got it allfigured out and then now your
business is gone and you guysfall out of the business.
We saw this happen through 2020, 2021, and especially today in
(07:49):
this market and industry, wherethings look very different than
they did in 2015, 16.
I've seen people that wereabsolutely dominating three to
four years ago that today arehardly doing anything because
they were unwilling to adapt,they were unwilling to change,
they lost their hunger, theydropped their drive, they lost
their ambition because theirsuccess had gotten to their head
early on and they didn't thinkthey had anything else to learn
and evolve.
(08:10):
And again, guys, this is theone thing that has carried me on
.
And for those of you guys thathave been following me for a
long time on social media andstarted with me from day one in
my business, you guys have seenhow much I've grown and how much
I've evolved.
And even now, if you go backand look at my marketing, you
guys look at my systems, youguys look at my processes, even
my thought process on the waythat I handle things over time
and experience.
That's the only thing that'skept me alive this long in this
(08:32):
business.
It's the only thing that'sgoing to continue to carry me on
and I hope that you guys takethat, you know, to heat in your
guys' own personal business.
As always, I hope you guys havean absolutely crazy, amazing,
beautiful week out there.
Make sure you guys are settingthat bar high.
Make sure you guys are settingyour goals high.
Make sure you guys are notletting your foot off the gas.
Don't live on yesterday's wins.
Yesterday's wins were great,but today's a new day.
(08:53):
This is a new week.
Make sure you guys are outthere focusing on setting that
bar high and get out there andlet's crush it.
If you guys found value intoday's episode, I asked that
you guys share this with anybodythat you think may benefit from
hearing this.
Obviously, I do this for free.
I do this to help you guys.
I do this to help, obviously,impact other people that are
looking to grow and scale andimprove their life.
(09:13):
So all I ask is that you guysdo share this with somebody that
you think it could help andbenefit.
I greatly appreciate it.
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