September 22, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of the RV Rental Secrets Podcast, Stacy Maxon and Garr Russell dive into the power of imagination and how it impacts both life and business. Fresh from the Hershey RV Show, Stacy shares the excitement of connecting with new franchisees and witnessing how vision and faith fuel their entrepreneurial journeys. Together, she and Garr unpack the idea that imagination isn’t just for kids—it’s something we use daily, whether we realize it or not. They highlight how imagination often defaults to fear and negativity, but with intention, it can be trained to create hope, vision, and solutions that move us forward. Drawing on biblical principles, practical business examples, and personal experiences, they encourage listeners to shift from “what if it fails?” to “what if it succeeds?” and to see how this mindset shift opens the door to new opportunities and resources. The conversation also touches on the importance of partnerships, complementary skillsets, and surrounding yourself with a supportive community. With practical takeaways like focusing on daily wins, journaling, and reframing challenges, this episode reminds listeners that imagination is the starting point for growth—in business, family, and faith.
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Welcome to the RV Rental Secrets Podcast.
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.999I'm your host, Stacey Maxson, and I'm thrilled to guide you through the journey of launching, growing, and managing a profitable RV rental business. 3 00:00:09,380.9977324263 --> 00:00:10,370.997732426 All right everybody. 4 00:00:10,370.997732426 --> 00:00:14,810.997732426 Welcome to another episode of RV Rental Secrets podcast. 5 00:00:15,320.997732426 --> 00:00:21,230.997732426 I'm your co-host Scar Russell, along here with Stacy, shooting for the Stars Maxon. 6 00:00:21,230.997732426 --> 00:00:24,455.997732426 Stacy, how you doing, friend? I'm doing awesome today. 7 00:00:24,455.997732426 --> 00:00:30,290.997732426 You know what? We've been fired up the last couple days, haven't we? Yeah, yeah. 8 00:00:30,290.997732426 --> 00:00:33,350.997732426 I've been having some great conversations with our franchises. 9 00:00:34,385.997732426 --> 00:00:41,225.997732426 One-on-one meetings and I got to meet up with some people this last weekend, and it's just, yeah, really got me excited. 10 00:00:42,95.997732426 --> 00:00:42,335.997732426 Yeah. 11 00:00:42,335.997732426 --> 00:00:57,895.997732426 You were up at the Hershey, Pennsylvania RV show and met with the new franchisee and you were there with one of our franchisees, mark, AKA Mark, the mentor, AKA Father Fireside, an amazing guy that's part of our fireside franchise. 12 00:00:58,75.997732426 --> 00:00:59,605.997732426 So today we're gonna talk about. 13 00:01:00,280.997732426 --> 00:01:01,660.997732426 Imagination. 14 00:01:01,990.997732426 --> 00:01:03,160.997732426 The power of imagination. 15 00:01:03,160.997732426 --> 00:01:05,830.997732426 I've been reading this little book here by my pastor. 16 00:01:05,830.997732426 --> 00:01:09,400.997732426 I call him Andrew Womack, and it's called Believing is Seeing. 17 00:01:10,60.997732426 --> 00:01:15,250.997732426 And Stacey, you experienced this over the weekend, right? You were meeting with the new franchisee. 18 00:01:15,250.997732426 --> 00:01:20,50.997732426 You were, he was sharing all his dreams and all the things that has been going on in his life. 19 00:01:20,50.997732426 --> 00:01:22,840.997732426 And that got your imagination fired up. 20 00:01:23,440.997732426 --> 00:01:24,820.997732426 And here we are talking about it. 21 00:01:25,265.997732426 --> 00:01:25,555.997732426 Yeah. 22 00:01:25,870.997732426 --> 00:01:26,230.997732426 Yeah. 23 00:01:26,230.997732426 --> 00:01:27,670.997732426 It, it was just. 24 00:01:28,330.997732426 --> 00:01:29,410.997732426 So crazy to see. 25 00:01:29,410.997732426 --> 00:01:47,945.99773243 So we met this new franchise and he is been with us just a few weeks but he is in the Pennsylvania area, so we're able to meet up and there was just so many connections between him and mark who was with us, and then he was just telling other stories and how he's like. 26 00:01:48,915.99773243 --> 00:01:50,625.99773243 Like this is too much of a coincidence. 27 00:01:50,625.99773243 --> 00:01:55,815.99773243 Like, I know this was God and he just like gave us example after example. 28 00:01:56,75.99773243 --> 00:02:00,275.99773243 And it just blew my mind to like see how all of that was coming to light. 29 00:02:00,995.99773243 --> 00:02:07,145.99773243 And that was, you know, part of the thing that got me so excited was, you know, you're just seeing it in real time. 30 00:02:08,495.99773243 --> 00:02:09,35.99773243 Yeah. 31 00:02:09,275.99773243 --> 00:02:09,575.99773243 Yeah. 32 00:02:09,580.99773243 --> 00:02:10,10.99773243 It's amazing. 33 00:02:10,70.99773243 --> 00:02:17,15.99773243 And you know what, I love this word imagination that we're gonna talk about today because it's not a word that adults typically use. 34 00:02:17,645.99773243 --> 00:02:27,185.99773243 In conversations with each other, right? It's more of like, you think if your kid has an imagination and, and, and you almost think of the word imagination as like a childish thing. 35 00:02:27,605.99773243 --> 00:02:32,595.99773243 But really we use our imaginations every single day all day long. 36 00:02:33,45.99773243 --> 00:02:35,625.99773243 We just may not necessarily label it as that. 37 00:02:35,955.99773243 --> 00:02:39,675.99773243 And like this book talks about believing is seeing is. 38 00:02:40,5.99773243 --> 00:02:44,355.99773243 We first see things in our mind before we see things in reality. 39 00:02:44,715.99773243 --> 00:02:46,845.99773243 And there's a simple illustration here that I love. 40 00:02:46,845.99773243 --> 00:02:54,465.99773243 It talks about when you're leaving the store and you're going to get back in your car, right? In your mind, in your imagination. 41 00:02:54,465.99773243 --> 00:02:59,505.99773243 You're like, okay, where did I park? And you pull up that mental picture of where you parked when you got there. 42 00:02:59,865.99773243 --> 00:03:03,655.99773243 So we're using our imaginations all day long and. 43 00:03:04,210.99773243 --> 00:03:09,610.99773243 Most scenarios, unfortunately, our imaginations like to go towards the negative. 44 00:03:09,670.99773243 --> 00:03:22,660.99773243 Our imaginations like to think about, oh, what will this be like when this doesn't work out? What will this be like when things don't go the way I hoped? What you know? And so what we have to learn to do is we have to learn to train our brain. 45 00:03:23,200.99773243 --> 00:03:25,490.99773243 And there's a proverb proverb 29 18. 46 00:03:25,490.99773243 --> 00:03:28,190.99773243 It says, where there is no vision, the people perish. 47 00:03:29,30.99773243 --> 00:03:30,260.99773243 And that word vision. 48 00:03:31,55.99773243 --> 00:03:35,885.99773243 Is also the word imagination in the Amer American Heritage Dictionary. 49 00:03:36,305.99773243 --> 00:03:39,605.99773243 So it's saying where there's no imagination, people perish. 50 00:03:39,965.99773243 --> 00:03:50,825.99773243 When we don't have an imagination for our future, for our family, for our finances, for all these things, well then our mind is going to default towards the negative. 51 00:03:53,395.99773243 --> 00:03:53,765.99773243 Yeah. 52 00:03:53,825.99773243 --> 00:04:04,85.99773243 Yeah, I was thinking that when you said about, you know, we don't imagine, I instantly thought of like all the negative things that I imagined because it's just where your brain goes. 53 00:04:04,265.99773243 --> 00:04:10,55.99773243 You know, something happens, you're like, well, what if, what if that happens? Or what if this, and it's all negative things. 54 00:04:10,55.99773243 --> 00:04:15,905.99773243 So it's like you really have to train your brain to think of the positive outlooks rather than the negative. 55 00:04:16,805.99773243 --> 00:04:17,255.99773243 Yeah. 56 00:04:17,255.99773243 --> 00:04:18,845.99773243 Tony Robbins talks about this. 57 00:04:18,845.99773243 --> 00:04:19,85.99773243 He. 58 00:04:20,75.99773243 --> 00:04:25,985.99773243 He talks about, you know, when, when man was first around, you know, it was like survival mode. 59 00:04:25,985.99773243 --> 00:04:27,395.99773243 Everything was survival mode. 60 00:04:27,485.99773243 --> 00:04:35,75.99773243 You know, like you're at night you gotta start a fire to protect yourself from the wild beast because you didn't have a, you know, a rough over your head and all these things. 61 00:04:35,75.99773243 --> 00:04:43,445.99773243 And so it's like naturally ingrained in our brain to survive, you know, even right after the fall of Adam and Eve, all of a sudden they realize like, oh my gosh, we're naked. 62 00:04:43,655.99773243 --> 00:04:46,25.99773243 You know, and they, they made clothes to cover themselves. 63 00:04:46,25.99773243 --> 00:04:48,5.99773243 So it's like we're always in this survival mode. 64 00:04:48,305.99773243 --> 00:04:50,525.99773243 And so our brain defaults towards this. 65 00:04:50,525.99773243 --> 00:04:56,925.99773243 You know, that's part of Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil is, you know, their eyes were open. 66 00:04:56,925.99773243 --> 00:05:02,145.99773243 They became more spiritually dead and more alive to the natural senses. 67 00:05:02,415.99773243 --> 00:05:05,595.99773243 And so what we have to do is we have to retrain our brain. 68 00:05:06,465.99773243 --> 00:05:23,25.99773243 You know, so like a, a, a, a common takeaway or a practical takeaway for y'all would be something like, instead of saying what happens if this doesn't work out? Start asking yourself what happens if this does work out? And then start imagining what that will look like, right. 69 00:05:23,25.99773243 --> 00:05:25,695.99773243 And to bring it to the RV rental business. 70 00:05:25,995.99773243 --> 00:05:30,525.99773243 You know, we get worried because we message a renter and they don't respond in an hour. 71 00:05:30,525.99773243 --> 00:05:32,325.99773243 We're like, oh my gosh, they stole my rv. 72 00:05:32,325.99773243 --> 00:05:34,455.99773243 It's worst thing in, you know, like. 73 00:05:35,115.99773243 --> 00:05:44,85.99773243 Giving, just giving our mind and people the benefit of the doubt, just assuming best case and will some worst case scenarios happen in life. 74 00:05:44,85.99773243 --> 00:05:44,655.99773243 Sure. 75 00:05:44,955.99773243 --> 00:05:52,155.99773243 But life is gonna be a lot more peaceful if we imagine the best case scenarios and also if we're imagining best case scenarios. 76 00:05:52,545.99773243 --> 00:05:55,605.99773243 Y'all, I'm sure you heard me quote this several times before, as. 77 00:05:56,230.99773243 --> 00:05:58,420.99773243 All the resources we need already exist. 78 00:05:58,420.99773243 --> 00:05:59,890.99773243 We're just not aware of them yet. 79 00:06:00,310.99773243 --> 00:06:09,550.99773243 Well, if we're using our imagination to think towards a positive ending, a positive outcome, then guess what? Those resources are gonna start to present themselves to us. 80 00:06:09,550.99773243 --> 00:06:11,740.99773243 Why? Because we're opening our imagination. 81 00:06:11,740.99773243 --> 00:06:15,880.99773243 We're opening our mind to the possibility of finding those resources. 82 00:06:15,880.99773243 --> 00:06:22,565.99773243 Finding those solutions, you know, makes me think of, our fireside chat we had the other night, Stacy and, and Chris Nelson up in Michigan. 83 00:06:22,655.99773243 --> 00:06:25,925.99773243 He's like, oh yeah, by the way, I was doing this, this, and this. 84 00:06:25,925.99773243 --> 00:06:32,705.99773243 And guess what happened? I got reached out to by this guy who owns a dealership who has this property. 85 00:06:32,705.99773243 --> 00:06:35,435.99773243 He wants to rent me 10 acres for 1500 bucks a month. 86 00:06:35,740.99773243 --> 00:06:38,20.99773243 Oh, Andy wants to gimme like 40 RVs. 87 00:06:38,80.99773243 --> 00:06:39,670.99773243 Oh, and this, and this, and this, and this. 88 00:06:40,150.99773243 --> 00:07:00,710.99773243 What happened was Chris was just out doing the thing, networking, reaching out to people, and the thing I loved most about that wasn't necessarily all the amazing things that were happening for Chris, what I loved about it most was as I sat back and I watched whatever we had a dozen or so franchises on the call, I watched their eyes and they're like, their imaginations come alive. 89 00:07:00,710.99773243 --> 00:07:01,610.99773243 Like, oh my gosh. 90 00:07:02,15.99773243 --> 00:07:02,945.99773243 It's possible. 91 00:07:03,95.99773243 --> 00:07:07,25.99773243 There are those connections, there are those opportunities out there for me too. 92 00:07:07,505.99773243 --> 00:07:07,715.99773243 Yeah. 93 00:07:07,715.99773243 --> 00:07:20,555.99773243 And I loved, even in that situation, like we're all thinking it's an excellent deal and he's asking us like, do you think it's worth it? Because within your own brain, you're always questioning everything. 94 00:07:20,705.99773243 --> 00:07:26,885.99773243 So he wasn't able to use his imagination to see all of the great possibilities that could come out of that. 95 00:07:27,995.99773243 --> 00:07:28,955.99773243 Yeah, that's so true. 96 00:07:28,955.99773243 --> 00:07:36,35.99773243 He was like, I don't know, is that worth the amount of rent per month? And actually, I think I said the rent wrong, I think it was 4,500 a month, not 1500. 97 00:07:36,35.99773243 --> 00:07:37,70.99773243 I think it was 2,500. 98 00:07:37,595.99773243 --> 00:07:38,375.99773243 Oh, okay. 99 00:07:38,735.99773243 --> 00:07:40,235.99773243 Yeah, because I, I forget what we said. 100 00:07:40,235.99773243 --> 00:07:45,35.99773243 We're like, dude, X amount of units at 75 a month that covers your rent. 101 00:07:45,35.99773243 --> 00:07:47,495.99773243 And you have literally, that'll take up like an acre or two. 102 00:07:47,495.99773243 --> 00:07:47,585.99773243 Mm-hmm. 103 00:07:48,35.99773243 --> 00:07:49,955.99773243 So yeah, it was a complete no brainer. 104 00:07:50,375.99773243 --> 00:07:53,615.99773243 For him to do that and take that partnership on, but Right. 105 00:07:53,615.99773243 --> 00:08:09,335.99773243 We always have that fear, or Tony Robbins calls it the caveman mentality of like, you know, well, what if it doesn't work? What's gonna happen? You know? And, and instead of thinking about what if it doesn't work, you know, that's where the scripture tell tells us to walk by faith and not by sight. 106 00:08:09,815.99773243 --> 00:08:11,555.99773243 Because when we walk by faith. 107 00:08:12,115.99773243 --> 00:08:22,345.99773243 Then we open the door, we open our imagination for all the potential, all the things that can happen, all you know, and I just think back on my journey when I first started renting my RV and man. 108 00:08:23,540.99773243 --> 00:08:30,350.99773243 If, if I would've went with all those doubts that were attacking my mind, like, wow, we wouldn't be where we're at today. 109 00:08:30,680.99773243 --> 00:08:37,280.99773243 Or, or the process of becoming a franchise, you know, or the process of bringing you on as a business partner and giving up some equity. 110 00:08:37,580.99773243 --> 00:08:43,460.99773243 All these things that we do where we can think about the negatives of it, but there's, there's always so much more. 111 00:08:43,800.99773243 --> 00:08:47,940.99773243 And like one of our mentors, Myron Golden says, is All work works. 112 00:08:47,940.99773243 --> 00:08:49,620.99773243 It works on you or it works for you. 113 00:08:49,620.99773243 --> 00:08:50,40.99773243 So. 114 00:08:50,385.99773243 --> 00:09:02,55.99773243 It's okay to use your imagination, make a decision, and it be the wrong one, because guess what? He'd either, there's either a, a reward monetarily or there's a reward as far as you grow in your character, you grow as a person. 115 00:09:03,825.99773243 --> 00:09:04,155.99773243 Yeah. 116 00:09:04,155.99773243 --> 00:09:06,705.99773243 I feel like you're speaking to me right now. 117 00:09:06,705.99773243 --> 00:09:15,655.99773243 I have a very logical mindset, so it's hard for me to, to imagine things or sometimes, like when I do imagine things, then it's like. 118 00:09:16,860.99773243 --> 00:09:22,410.99773243 All I wanna do is make a plan to get to that thing that I'm imagining and it doesn't always work out. 119 00:09:22,890.99773243 --> 00:09:38,70.99773243 So yeah, I mean, to all the people I think that have a logical brain like me, you know, it is still possible to imagine something and then taking a step back and knowing that if, if it's something that's meant for you, it'll happen. 120 00:09:39,510.99773243 --> 00:09:44,970.99773243 Yeah, that's good, Stacy, that you say that because really imagination can be used in different ways. 121 00:09:44,970.99773243 --> 00:09:51,300.99773243 You can just simply as the way that your brain operates, you can use your imagination to bring things. 122 00:09:51,945.99773243 --> 00:09:56,445.99773243 To life that I dream up, right? Because my imagination is wired different than yours. 123 00:09:56,445.99773243 --> 00:09:57,705.99773243 I'm the visionary. 124 00:09:58,5.99773243 --> 00:10:13,365.99773243 You are the make it hap happen, you know? And, and that's part of why firesides at where it's at today, because of our different skillsets coming together, you know? And, and so that's important to know that as an entrepreneur is, okay, what is my gifting. 125 00:10:13,725.99773243 --> 00:10:25,165.99773243 And, and how do I use my gifting? And then how do I find others with giftings that compliment my gifting? And we're seeing that with some of our franchises right now that are struggling and succeeding. 126 00:10:25,705.99773243 --> 00:10:30,85.99773243 They're both have the same pain of, they need somebody to compliment their weakness. 127 00:10:30,295.99773243 --> 00:10:38,65.99773243 So we have franchises that are just rocking and rolling, not even a year in, and they're doing several hundred thousand dollars in revenue. 128 00:10:38,285.99773243 --> 00:10:39,785.99773243 But they're realizing, oh. 129 00:10:40,190.99773243 --> 00:10:42,410.99773243 I need to staff my weaknesses. 130 00:10:42,560.99773243 --> 00:10:47,360.99773243 And then we have franchises that are barely sputtering to take off. 131 00:10:47,360.99773243 --> 00:10:58,90.99773243 They got two, three units a year in and they're realizing, oh, I need somebody that's wired differently than me to actually help me build the fleet so I can actually do the daily work. 132 00:10:58,120.99773243 --> 00:10:59,590.99773243 'cause that's what I find more joy in. 133 00:10:59,980.99773243 --> 00:11:03,640.99773243 So that's, that's a really good point that you have is Yeah, using the imagination. 134 00:11:03,970.99773243 --> 00:11:22,480.99773243 But using it within the context of how you're skilled, you know? So, and, and I, the saying it's funny, there's like four sayings I have that I feel like can just get you all through life hope, right? So I love talking about hope and this, this post that I have in my wall here says, hope doesn't know what's going to happen. 135 00:11:22,480.99773243 --> 00:11:24,100.99773243 It just knows something will. 136 00:11:24,745.99773243 --> 00:11:31,375.99773243 And once hope creates expectation, faith begins to look for the thing that hope is feeling. 137 00:11:31,825.99773243 --> 00:11:35,815.99773243 So, like you, Stacy, right? You're trying to make things happen. 138 00:11:35,815.99773243 --> 00:11:38,545.99773243 You've, you've actually, you're in a really beautiful place. 139 00:11:38,605.99773243 --> 00:11:42,265.99773243 Hopefully I can say this without crying because, 'cause you know how much I care for you. 140 00:11:42,595.99773243 --> 00:11:50,335.99773243 You're in this beautiful place where you're about to the end of yourself saying, okay, God, I surrender. 141 00:11:50,935.99773243 --> 00:11:53,785.99773243 I have all these gifts and talents of making things come to life. 142 00:11:54,250.99773243 --> 00:12:05,110.99773243 But I'm realizing this part of my life right here, I can't bring it to life on my own because you're actually trying to bring me to the end of myself to say, okay, I surrender. 143 00:12:05,680.99773243 --> 00:12:06,340.99773243 And then bam. 144 00:12:06,340.99773243 --> 00:12:09,540.99773243 Once you do that then watch what God does. 145 00:12:09,810.99773243 --> 00:12:11,40.99773243 Let go and let God. 146 00:12:12,225.99773243 --> 00:12:15,285.99773243 Yeah, there's a scripture that I'm thinking of right now. 147 00:12:15,285.99773243 --> 00:12:23,625.99773243 I'm not sure where it's at, but it, it talks about Jesus, how his yoke is easy in his burden as light, and, and I love it in the message translation. 148 00:12:23,625.99773243 --> 00:12:29,775.99773243 'cause it talks like, are you burned out on religion? Are you burned out on this? Are you burned out on that? And then it says. 149 00:12:30,450.99773243 --> 00:12:37,410.99773243 Come join the OnForce rhythms of grace, and I just love how it says it, the enfor rhythms of grace. 150 00:12:37,680.99773243 --> 00:12:55,320.99773243 So it's like once you just stop trying to make certain things happen on your own, and instead just tap into your, tap into your imagination and just start to think about what it will be like when these things happen and just, and just flow in that, then all of a sudden the en forced rhythms of grace come about. 151 00:12:55,620.99773243 --> 00:12:57,330.99773243 And the, and the cool thing that I love about that. 152 00:12:57,705.99773243 --> 00:13:04,5.99773243 And I believe one of the reasons that God does things that way is it's not that he's trying to keep something from us. 153 00:13:04,65.99773243 --> 00:13:22,845.99773243 He's trying to get things to us, but he's trying to teach us something first and then second, he loves to do it in a way where only he can be the, the reason He loves to do it in a way where when you share the story, it's like you can't help but include him in all the details because you're like, yeah, here's me trying to make this happen to my own. 154 00:13:23,235.99773243 --> 00:13:25,900.99773243 Oh, and then I stopped trying, and then here's how it happened. 155 00:13:26,250.99773243 --> 00:13:31,680.99773243 And so it's just like an undeniable test, undeniable testimony that the Lord did it. 156 00:13:32,190.99773243 --> 00:13:32,310.99773243 Mm-hmm. 157 00:13:33,120.99773243 --> 00:13:38,790.99773243 And I'm just thinking for like everyone that's listening right now, they're probably like, like I just wanted to learn how to rent my rv. 158 00:13:39,0.99773243 --> 00:13:54,270.99773243 But it's like when you're an entrepreneur, you realize like you have to change your mindset and work on yourself in order to be an entrepreneur and to grow your business and, you know, grow your family and raise your kids. 159 00:13:54,730.99773243 --> 00:13:57,820.99773243 It's so much more than just the day to day of running a business. 160 00:13:57,820.99773243 --> 00:13:59,470.99773243 You really have to work on yourself. 161 00:14:00,520.99773243 --> 00:14:00,760.99773243 Yeah. 162 00:14:00,760.99773243 --> 00:14:01,390.99773243 It's so true. 163 00:14:01,390.99773243 --> 00:14:13,360.99773243 I mean, we were just talking about this in, in one of our meetings is one of the, the biggest areas where we support our franchises, where they need support is the mindset. 164 00:14:13,930.99773243 --> 00:14:18,220.99773243 Because you can go buy a course, you can learn anything. 165 00:14:18,220.99773243 --> 00:14:21,100.99773243 You can buy a book, you can go get a book from the library, whatever it is. 166 00:14:21,610.99773243 --> 00:14:26,380.99773243 But if your mindset isn't changing, you know it's not gonna get you there. 167 00:14:26,380.99773243 --> 00:14:29,560.99773243 The strategies, the philosophies, and how it all works. 168 00:14:29,920.99773243 --> 00:14:35,590.99773243 You can go pay to have that, but the mindset is where the most work needs to be done. 169 00:14:35,980.99773243 --> 00:14:48,220.99773243 And, and that's one of the beautiful things to me about the Fireside family is it's a community of like-minded individuals where, where we can encourage each other and we have that common foundation, you know, so. 170 00:14:48,570.99773243 --> 00:15:09,390.99773243 I just want to encourage you guys find that common foundation of people, you know, you think about it, there's Jeep Clubs, there's whatever, dog lover clubs, like all the different things, right? I, there's the, I'm sure there's probably, I don't know why I thought of this, so I'm just gonna say there's probably a club out there for like people who take pride in having like a green weed free lawn. 171 00:15:09,450.99773243 --> 00:15:13,950.99773243 You know, like there's clubs for everything, you know, like join the green Weed Free Lawn Club. 172 00:15:14,370.99773243 --> 00:15:22,590.99773243 Find your people, find your tribe that can help you, that understand your, your physiology and psychology of what's going on in your head. 173 00:15:23,160.99773243 --> 00:15:29,580.99773243 And then allow them to mentor and encourage you so that you can change your mindset because it's so true. 174 00:15:29,860.99773243 --> 00:15:37,330.99773243 At the end of the day, you can have all the tools and strategies and everything, but if your mindset isn't getting work done, if your mindset isn't getting upgraded. 175 00:15:37,725.99773243 --> 00:15:40,905.99773243 You're gonna reach a wall eventually, and you're gonna stay stuck there. 176 00:15:41,85.99773243 --> 00:15:42,795.99773243 Or what you're gonna do is not stay stuck. 177 00:15:42,795.99773243 --> 00:15:43,935.99773243 You're actually gonna go back. 178 00:15:44,415.99773243 --> 00:15:49,185.99773243 You know, you're gonna go back to that land of familiarity and say, okay, I tried this business. 179 00:15:49,425.99773243 --> 00:15:54,465.99773243 It's not working, it didn't work, and you're gonna go back and you're gonna be stuck at a corporate job. 180 00:15:54,525.99773243 --> 00:15:56,325.99773243 'cause you think, well, it just, it didn't work. 181 00:15:56,325.99773243 --> 00:15:56,955.99773243 I tried. 182 00:15:57,285.99773243 --> 00:15:58,185.99773243 But that's not true. 183 00:15:58,215.99773243 --> 00:16:02,25.99773243 You just have to try and try again to continue to learn, to grow your mindset. 184 00:16:02,745.99773243 --> 00:16:03,135.99773243 Yeah. 185 00:16:03,135.99773243 --> 00:16:05,65.99773243 And with mindset one of the. 186 00:16:05,785.99773243 --> 00:16:34,935.99773243 Tips that I love that I'll share with everyone is we had seen Ben Hardy at a mastermind and he has a book The Gap in the Game, and basically like you're just looking like sit down with a piece of paper, write down everything that you've accomplished in the past year, and that's focusing on all of the positives and seeing how far you've come instead of looking at, okay, but I wanted to do this, but I didn't get to do that. 187 00:16:35,260.99773243 --> 00:16:47,410.9977324 But when you have it in black and white and see everything that you've done within that time period, you know, that's where you'll start to be able to imagine a better future and see what you've actually done in your life. 188 00:16:48,730.9977324 --> 00:16:50,500.9977324 Yeah, that's such a powerful principle. 189 00:16:50,500.9977324 --> 00:16:58,120.9977324 I actually have a reminder on my calendar every night at nine o'clock and it says to think of a win that I had for today. 190 00:16:58,795.9977324 --> 00:17:04,645.9977324 Think of one goal that I have for tomorrow and then a question to sleep on, and then I have a journal next to my bed. 191 00:17:05,125.9977324 --> 00:17:09,115.9977324 And then I say this, this prayer, I said, God, I say, God, I value your voice. 192 00:17:09,115.9977324 --> 00:17:10,375.9977324 I value your word to me. 193 00:17:10,375.9977324 --> 00:17:11,935.9977324 I value your instruction to me. 194 00:17:12,325.9977324 --> 00:17:14,185.9977324 I value that you speak to me. 195 00:17:14,785.9977324 --> 00:17:16,195.9977324 I don't wanna just go on with my day. 196 00:17:16,195.9977324 --> 00:17:24,955.9977324 I want to hear what you say and take whatever action is required to respond for you to have your way and for your word to have its full effect. 197 00:17:25,435.9977324 --> 00:17:27,655.9977324 And, and man, you'd be amazed at. 198 00:17:28,390.9977324 --> 00:17:29,50.9977324 What that does. 199 00:17:29,50.9977324 --> 00:17:32,480.9977324 First, you go to bed with a positive mindset because you're focusing on what you. 200 00:17:33,145.9977324 --> 00:17:35,335.9977324 Did do today instead of what you didn't do. 201 00:17:35,575.9977324 --> 00:17:46,285.9977324 And then when you give yourself a question to sleep on, and I'll, and I gotta admit as I'm sharing this, I don't practice this regularly, okay? It's, I have it on my calendar, but I'm not saying I have this down to a science by any means. 202 00:17:46,705.9977324 --> 00:17:51,775.9977324 But you ask a powerful question to sleep on, your subconscious is literally working on that while you're sleeping. 203 00:17:52,45.9977324 --> 00:17:56,35.9977324 I mean, how cool is that? And you literally wake up feeling like you've already accomplished something. 204 00:17:56,725.9977324 --> 00:17:57,565.9977324 And so just. 205 00:17:57,755.9977324 --> 00:17:59,745.9977324 Just take away for everybody today. 206 00:17:59,955.9977324 --> 00:18:01,575.9977324 Tap into that imagination. 207 00:18:01,875.9977324 --> 00:18:13,305.9977324 You know, the scriptures say that we come to Jesus like a little child, and, and what does that mean? It means coming just full of imagination and hope and ideas and curiosity and what if, and life's and adventure. 208 00:18:13,620.9977324 --> 00:18:15,240.9977324 You know, just, just do that. 209 00:18:15,450.9977324 --> 00:18:17,520.9977324 Just start to tap into your imagination. 210 00:18:17,730.9977324 --> 00:18:22,490.9977324 Pick one area of your life where you wanna see an increase and just focus on that. 211 00:18:22,490.9977324 --> 00:18:25,340.9977324 Just imagine what would it look like when this happens. 212 00:18:25,380.9977324 --> 00:18:25,650.9977324 Yeah. 213 00:18:25,650.9977324 --> 00:18:26,100.9977324 I love it. 214 00:18:26,280.9977324 --> 00:18:27,300.9977324 This is a good episode. 215 00:18:27,930.9977324 --> 00:18:31,50.9977324 This is, I was just thinking about it as we we're talking. 216 00:18:31,50.9977324 --> 00:18:32,640.9977324 I'm like, oh, we gotta send this out everywhere. 217 00:18:32,640.9977324 --> 00:18:34,20.9977324 This is, this is good stuff. 218 00:18:34,730.9977324 --> 00:18:35,780.9977324 I'm, I'm pumped up. 219 00:18:35,960.9977324 --> 00:18:41,90.9977324 Well, hey y'all, thanks so much for coming and joining us with another episode of RV Rental Secrets podcast. 220 00:18:41,450.9977324 --> 00:18:42,260.9977324 Hey, let's do this. 221 00:18:42,260.9977324 --> 00:18:45,740.9977324 We just got to speak our mind today on whatever we were feeling and thinking. 222 00:18:46,100.9977324 --> 00:18:47,720.9977324 Why don't you go ahead and throw something in the comments. 223 00:18:47,720.9977324 --> 00:18:51,770.9977324 If you got a topic you want us to talk about on an upcoming episode. 224 00:18:52,10.9977324 --> 00:18:54,980.9977324 You know, we're coming towards the end of the RV rental season. 225 00:18:55,565.9977324 --> 00:18:55,745.9977324 Yeah. 226 00:18:55,775.9977324 --> 00:19:07,735.9977324 And, and you'll start to think about next season if there's something you want to talk about, questions you know, themes, go ahead and put that in the chat and in the comments and we'll, we'll look at those for next episode. 227 00:19:07,735.9977324 --> 00:19:10,465.9977324 So we'll see you all on the next episode. 228 00:19:10,465.9977324 --> 00:19:10,915.9977324 Thanks y'all. 229 00:19:10,915.9977324 --> 00:19:11,605.9977324 God bless.
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.999I'm your host, Stacey Maxson, and I'm thrilled to guide you through the journey of launching, growing, and managing a profitable RV rental business. 3 00:00:09,380.9977324263 --> 00:00:10,370.997732426 All right everybody. 4 00:00:10,370.997732426 --> 00:00:14,810.997732426 Welcome to another episode of RV Rental Secrets podcast. 5 00:00:15,320.997732426 --> 00:00:21,230.997732426 I'm your co-host Scar Russell, along here with Stacy, shooting for the Stars Maxon. 6 00:00:21,230.997732426 --> 00:00:24,455.997732426 Stacy, how you doing, friend? I'm doing awesome today. 7 00:00:24,455.997732426 --> 00:00:30,290.997732426 You know what? We've been fired up the last couple days, haven't we? Yeah, yeah. 8 00:00:30,290.997732426 --> 00:00:33,350.997732426 I've been having some great conversations with our franchises. 9 00:00:34,385.997732426 --> 00:00:41,225.997732426 One-on-one meetings and I got to meet up with some people this last weekend, and it's just, yeah, really got me excited. 10 00:00:42,95.997732426 --> 00:00:42,335.997732426 Yeah. 11 00:00:42,335.997732426 --> 00:00:57,895.997732426 You were up at the Hershey, Pennsylvania RV show and met with the new franchisee and you were there with one of our franchisees, mark, AKA Mark, the mentor, AKA Father Fireside, an amazing guy that's part of our fireside franchise. 12 00:00:58,75.997732426 --> 00:00:59,605.997732426 So today we're gonna talk about. 13 00:01:00,280.997732426 --> 00:01:01,660.997732426 Imagination. 14 00:01:01,990.997732426 --> 00:01:03,160.997732426 The power of imagination. 15 00:01:03,160.997732426 --> 00:01:05,830.997732426 I've been reading this little book here by my pastor. 16 00:01:05,830.997732426 --> 00:01:09,400.997732426 I call him Andrew Womack, and it's called Believing is Seeing. 17 00:01:10,60.997732426 --> 00:01:15,250.997732426 And Stacey, you experienced this over the weekend, right? You were meeting with the new franchisee. 18 00:01:15,250.997732426 --> 00:01:20,50.997732426 You were, he was sharing all his dreams and all the things that has been going on in his life. 19 00:01:20,50.997732426 --> 00:01:22,840.997732426 And that got your imagination fired up. 20 00:01:23,440.997732426 --> 00:01:24,820.997732426 And here we are talking about it. 21 00:01:25,265.997732426 --> 00:01:25,555.997732426 Yeah. 22 00:01:25,870.997732426 --> 00:01:26,230.997732426 Yeah. 23 00:01:26,230.997732426 --> 00:01:27,670.997732426 It, it was just. 24 00:01:28,330.997732426 --> 00:01:29,410.997732426 So crazy to see. 25 00:01:29,410.997732426 --> 00:01:47,945.99773243 So we met this new franchise and he is been with us just a few weeks but he is in the Pennsylvania area, so we're able to meet up and there was just so many connections between him and mark who was with us, and then he was just telling other stories and how he's like. 26 00:01:48,915.99773243 --> 00:01:50,625.99773243 Like this is too much of a coincidence. 27 00:01:50,625.99773243 --> 00:01:55,815.99773243 Like, I know this was God and he just like gave us example after example. 28 00:01:56,75.99773243 --> 00:02:00,275.99773243 And it just blew my mind to like see how all of that was coming to light. 29 00:02:00,995.99773243 --> 00:02:07,145.99773243 And that was, you know, part of the thing that got me so excited was, you know, you're just seeing it in real time. 30 00:02:08,495.99773243 --> 00:02:09,35.99773243 Yeah. 31 00:02:09,275.99773243 --> 00:02:09,575.99773243 Yeah. 32 00:02:09,580.99773243 --> 00:02:10,10.99773243 It's amazing. 33 00:02:10,70.99773243 --> 00:02:17,15.99773243 And you know what, I love this word imagination that we're gonna talk about today because it's not a word that adults typically use. 34 00:02:17,645.99773243 --> 00:02:27,185.99773243 In conversations with each other, right? It's more of like, you think if your kid has an imagination and, and, and you almost think of the word imagination as like a childish thing. 35 00:02:27,605.99773243 --> 00:02:32,595.99773243 But really we use our imaginations every single day all day long. 36 00:02:33,45.99773243 --> 00:02:35,625.99773243 We just may not necessarily label it as that. 37 00:02:35,955.99773243 --> 00:02:39,675.99773243 And like this book talks about believing is seeing is. 38 00:02:40,5.99773243 --> 00:02:44,355.99773243 We first see things in our mind before we see things in reality. 39 00:02:44,715.99773243 --> 00:02:46,845.99773243 And there's a simple illustration here that I love. 40 00:02:46,845.99773243 --> 00:02:54,465.99773243 It talks about when you're leaving the store and you're going to get back in your car, right? In your mind, in your imagination. 41 00:02:54,465.99773243 --> 00:02:59,505.99773243 You're like, okay, where did I park? And you pull up that mental picture of where you parked when you got there. 42 00:02:59,865.99773243 --> 00:03:03,655.99773243 So we're using our imaginations all day long and. 43 00:03:04,210.99773243 --> 00:03:09,610.99773243 Most scenarios, unfortunately, our imaginations like to go towards the negative. 44 00:03:09,670.99773243 --> 00:03:22,660.99773243 Our imaginations like to think about, oh, what will this be like when this doesn't work out? What will this be like when things don't go the way I hoped? What you know? And so what we have to learn to do is we have to learn to train our brain. 45 00:03:23,200.99773243 --> 00:03:25,490.99773243 And there's a proverb proverb 29 18. 46 00:03:25,490.99773243 --> 00:03:28,190.99773243 It says, where there is no vision, the people perish. 47 00:03:29,30.99773243 --> 00:03:30,260.99773243 And that word vision. 48 00:03:31,55.99773243 --> 00:03:35,885.99773243 Is also the word imagination in the Amer American Heritage Dictionary. 49 00:03:36,305.99773243 --> 00:03:39,605.99773243 So it's saying where there's no imagination, people perish. 50 00:03:39,965.99773243 --> 00:03:50,825.99773243 When we don't have an imagination for our future, for our family, for our finances, for all these things, well then our mind is going to default towards the negative. 51 00:03:53,395.99773243 --> 00:03:53,765.99773243 Yeah. 52 00:03:53,825.99773243 --> 00:04:04,85.99773243 Yeah, I was thinking that when you said about, you know, we don't imagine, I instantly thought of like all the negative things that I imagined because it's just where your brain goes. 53 00:04:04,265.99773243 --> 00:04:10,55.99773243 You know, something happens, you're like, well, what if, what if that happens? Or what if this, and it's all negative things. 54 00:04:10,55.99773243 --> 00:04:15,905.99773243 So it's like you really have to train your brain to think of the positive outlooks rather than the negative. 55 00:04:16,805.99773243 --> 00:04:17,255.99773243 Yeah. 56 00:04:17,255.99773243 --> 00:04:18,845.99773243 Tony Robbins talks about this. 57 00:04:18,845.99773243 --> 00:04:19,85.99773243 He. 58 00:04:20,75.99773243 --> 00:04:25,985.99773243 He talks about, you know, when, when man was first around, you know, it was like survival mode. 59 00:04:25,985.99773243 --> 00:04:27,395.99773243 Everything was survival mode. 60 00:04:27,485.99773243 --> 00:04:35,75.99773243 You know, like you're at night you gotta start a fire to protect yourself from the wild beast because you didn't have a, you know, a rough over your head and all these things. 61 00:04:35,75.99773243 --> 00:04:43,445.99773243 And so it's like naturally ingrained in our brain to survive, you know, even right after the fall of Adam and Eve, all of a sudden they realize like, oh my gosh, we're naked. 62 00:04:43,655.99773243 --> 00:04:46,25.99773243 You know, and they, they made clothes to cover themselves. 63 00:04:46,25.99773243 --> 00:04:48,5.99773243 So it's like we're always in this survival mode. 64 00:04:48,305.99773243 --> 00:04:50,525.99773243 And so our brain defaults towards this. 65 00:04:50,525.99773243 --> 00:04:56,925.99773243 You know, that's part of Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil is, you know, their eyes were open. 66 00:04:56,925.99773243 --> 00:05:02,145.99773243 They became more spiritually dead and more alive to the natural senses. 67 00:05:02,415.99773243 --> 00:05:05,595.99773243 And so what we have to do is we have to retrain our brain. 68 00:05:06,465.99773243 --> 00:05:23,25.99773243 You know, so like a, a, a, a common takeaway or a practical takeaway for y'all would be something like, instead of saying what happens if this doesn't work out? Start asking yourself what happens if this does work out? And then start imagining what that will look like, right. 69 00:05:23,25.99773243 --> 00:05:25,695.99773243 And to bring it to the RV rental business. 70 00:05:25,995.99773243 --> 00:05:30,525.99773243 You know, we get worried because we message a renter and they don't respond in an hour. 71 00:05:30,525.99773243 --> 00:05:32,325.99773243 We're like, oh my gosh, they stole my rv. 72 00:05:32,325.99773243 --> 00:05:34,455.99773243 It's worst thing in, you know, like. 73 00:05:35,115.99773243 --> 00:05:44,85.99773243 Giving, just giving our mind and people the benefit of the doubt, just assuming best case and will some worst case scenarios happen in life. 74 00:05:44,85.99773243 --> 00:05:44,655.99773243 Sure. 75 00:05:44,955.99773243 --> 00:05:52,155.99773243 But life is gonna be a lot more peaceful if we imagine the best case scenarios and also if we're imagining best case scenarios. 76 00:05:52,545.99773243 --> 00:05:55,605.99773243 Y'all, I'm sure you heard me quote this several times before, as. 77 00:05:56,230.99773243 --> 00:05:58,420.99773243 All the resources we need already exist. 78 00:05:58,420.99773243 --> 00:05:59,890.99773243 We're just not aware of them yet. 79 00:06:00,310.99773243 --> 00:06:09,550.99773243 Well, if we're using our imagination to think towards a positive ending, a positive outcome, then guess what? Those resources are gonna start to present themselves to us. 80 00:06:09,550.99773243 --> 00:06:11,740.99773243 Why? Because we're opening our imagination. 81 00:06:11,740.99773243 --> 00:06:15,880.99773243 We're opening our mind to the possibility of finding those resources. 82 00:06:15,880.99773243 --> 00:06:22,565.99773243 Finding those solutions, you know, makes me think of, our fireside chat we had the other night, Stacy and, and Chris Nelson up in Michigan. 83 00:06:22,655.99773243 --> 00:06:25,925.99773243 He's like, oh yeah, by the way, I was doing this, this, and this. 84 00:06:25,925.99773243 --> 00:06:32,705.99773243 And guess what happened? I got reached out to by this guy who owns a dealership who has this property. 85 00:06:32,705.99773243 --> 00:06:35,435.99773243 He wants to rent me 10 acres for 1500 bucks a month. 86 00:06:35,740.99773243 --> 00:06:38,20.99773243 Oh, Andy wants to gimme like 40 RVs. 87 00:06:38,80.99773243 --> 00:06:39,670.99773243 Oh, and this, and this, and this, and this. 88 00:06:40,150.99773243 --> 00:07:00,710.99773243 What happened was Chris was just out doing the thing, networking, reaching out to people, and the thing I loved most about that wasn't necessarily all the amazing things that were happening for Chris, what I loved about it most was as I sat back and I watched whatever we had a dozen or so franchises on the call, I watched their eyes and they're like, their imaginations come alive. 89 00:07:00,710.99773243 --> 00:07:01,610.99773243 Like, oh my gosh. 90 00:07:02,15.99773243 --> 00:07:02,945.99773243 It's possible. 91 00:07:03,95.99773243 --> 00:07:07,25.99773243 There are those connections, there are those opportunities out there for me too. 92 00:07:07,505.99773243 --> 00:07:07,715.99773243 Yeah. 93 00:07:07,715.99773243 --> 00:07:20,555.99773243 And I loved, even in that situation, like we're all thinking it's an excellent deal and he's asking us like, do you think it's worth it? Because within your own brain, you're always questioning everything. 94 00:07:20,705.99773243 --> 00:07:26,885.99773243 So he wasn't able to use his imagination to see all of the great possibilities that could come out of that. 95 00:07:27,995.99773243 --> 00:07:28,955.99773243 Yeah, that's so true. 96 00:07:28,955.99773243 --> 00:07:36,35.99773243 He was like, I don't know, is that worth the amount of rent per month? And actually, I think I said the rent wrong, I think it was 4,500 a month, not 1500. 97 00:07:36,35.99773243 --> 00:07:37,70.99773243 I think it was 2,500. 98 00:07:37,595.99773243 --> 00:07:38,375.99773243 Oh, okay. 99 00:07:38,735.99773243 --> 00:07:40,235.99773243 Yeah, because I, I forget what we said. 100 00:07:40,235.99773243 --> 00:07:45,35.99773243 We're like, dude, X amount of units at 75 a month that covers your rent. 101 00:07:45,35.99773243 --> 00:07:47,495.99773243 And you have literally, that'll take up like an acre or two. 102 00:07:47,495.99773243 --> 00:07:47,585.99773243 Mm-hmm. 103 00:07:48,35.99773243 --> 00:07:49,955.99773243 So yeah, it was a complete no brainer. 104 00:07:50,375.99773243 --> 00:07:53,615.99773243 For him to do that and take that partnership on, but Right. 105 00:07:53,615.99773243 --> 00:08:09,335.99773243 We always have that fear, or Tony Robbins calls it the caveman mentality of like, you know, well, what if it doesn't work? What's gonna happen? You know? And, and instead of thinking about what if it doesn't work, you know, that's where the scripture tell tells us to walk by faith and not by sight. 106 00:08:09,815.99773243 --> 00:08:11,555.99773243 Because when we walk by faith. 107 00:08:12,115.99773243 --> 00:08:22,345.99773243 Then we open the door, we open our imagination for all the potential, all the things that can happen, all you know, and I just think back on my journey when I first started renting my RV and man. 108 00:08:23,540.99773243 --> 00:08:30,350.99773243 If, if I would've went with all those doubts that were attacking my mind, like, wow, we wouldn't be where we're at today. 109 00:08:30,680.99773243 --> 00:08:37,280.99773243 Or, or the process of becoming a franchise, you know, or the process of bringing you on as a business partner and giving up some equity. 110 00:08:37,580.99773243 --> 00:08:43,460.99773243 All these things that we do where we can think about the negatives of it, but there's, there's always so much more. 111 00:08:43,800.99773243 --> 00:08:47,940.99773243 And like one of our mentors, Myron Golden says, is All work works. 112 00:08:47,940.99773243 --> 00:08:49,620.99773243 It works on you or it works for you. 113 00:08:49,620.99773243 --> 00:08:50,40.99773243 So. 114 00:08:50,385.99773243 --> 00:09:02,55.99773243 It's okay to use your imagination, make a decision, and it be the wrong one, because guess what? He'd either, there's either a, a reward monetarily or there's a reward as far as you grow in your character, you grow as a person. 115 00:09:03,825.99773243 --> 00:09:04,155.99773243 Yeah. 116 00:09:04,155.99773243 --> 00:09:06,705.99773243 I feel like you're speaking to me right now. 117 00:09:06,705.99773243 --> 00:09:15,655.99773243 I have a very logical mindset, so it's hard for me to, to imagine things or sometimes, like when I do imagine things, then it's like. 118 00:09:16,860.99773243 --> 00:09:22,410.99773243 All I wanna do is make a plan to get to that thing that I'm imagining and it doesn't always work out. 119 00:09:22,890.99773243 --> 00:09:38,70.99773243 So yeah, I mean, to all the people I think that have a logical brain like me, you know, it is still possible to imagine something and then taking a step back and knowing that if, if it's something that's meant for you, it'll happen. 120 00:09:39,510.99773243 --> 00:09:44,970.99773243 Yeah, that's good, Stacy, that you say that because really imagination can be used in different ways. 121 00:09:44,970.99773243 --> 00:09:51,300.99773243 You can just simply as the way that your brain operates, you can use your imagination to bring things. 122 00:09:51,945.99773243 --> 00:09:56,445.99773243 To life that I dream up, right? Because my imagination is wired different than yours. 123 00:09:56,445.99773243 --> 00:09:57,705.99773243 I'm the visionary. 124 00:09:58,5.99773243 --> 00:10:13,365.99773243 You are the make it hap happen, you know? And, and that's part of why firesides at where it's at today, because of our different skillsets coming together, you know? And, and so that's important to know that as an entrepreneur is, okay, what is my gifting. 125 00:10:13,725.99773243 --> 00:10:25,165.99773243 And, and how do I use my gifting? And then how do I find others with giftings that compliment my gifting? And we're seeing that with some of our franchises right now that are struggling and succeeding. 126 00:10:25,705.99773243 --> 00:10:30,85.99773243 They're both have the same pain of, they need somebody to compliment their weakness. 127 00:10:30,295.99773243 --> 00:10:38,65.99773243 So we have franchises that are just rocking and rolling, not even a year in, and they're doing several hundred thousand dollars in revenue. 128 00:10:38,285.99773243 --> 00:10:39,785.99773243 But they're realizing, oh. 129 00:10:40,190.99773243 --> 00:10:42,410.99773243 I need to staff my weaknesses. 130 00:10:42,560.99773243 --> 00:10:47,360.99773243 And then we have franchises that are barely sputtering to take off. 131 00:10:47,360.99773243 --> 00:10:58,90.99773243 They got two, three units a year in and they're realizing, oh, I need somebody that's wired differently than me to actually help me build the fleet so I can actually do the daily work. 132 00:10:58,120.99773243 --> 00:10:59,590.99773243 'cause that's what I find more joy in. 133 00:10:59,980.99773243 --> 00:11:03,640.99773243 So that's, that's a really good point that you have is Yeah, using the imagination. 134 00:11:03,970.99773243 --> 00:11:22,480.99773243 But using it within the context of how you're skilled, you know? So, and, and I, the saying it's funny, there's like four sayings I have that I feel like can just get you all through life hope, right? So I love talking about hope and this, this post that I have in my wall here says, hope doesn't know what's going to happen. 135 00:11:22,480.99773243 --> 00:11:24,100.99773243 It just knows something will. 136 00:11:24,745.99773243 --> 00:11:31,375.99773243 And once hope creates expectation, faith begins to look for the thing that hope is feeling. 137 00:11:31,825.99773243 --> 00:11:35,815.99773243 So, like you, Stacy, right? You're trying to make things happen. 138 00:11:35,815.99773243 --> 00:11:38,545.99773243 You've, you've actually, you're in a really beautiful place. 139 00:11:38,605.99773243 --> 00:11:42,265.99773243 Hopefully I can say this without crying because, 'cause you know how much I care for you. 140 00:11:42,595.99773243 --> 00:11:50,335.99773243 You're in this beautiful place where you're about to the end of yourself saying, okay, God, I surrender. 141 00:11:50,935.99773243 --> 00:11:53,785.99773243 I have all these gifts and talents of making things come to life. 142 00:11:54,250.99773243 --> 00:12:05,110.99773243 But I'm realizing this part of my life right here, I can't bring it to life on my own because you're actually trying to bring me to the end of myself to say, okay, I surrender. 143 00:12:05,680.99773243 --> 00:12:06,340.99773243 And then bam. 144 00:12:06,340.99773243 --> 00:12:09,540.99773243 Once you do that then watch what God does. 145 00:12:09,810.99773243 --> 00:12:11,40.99773243 Let go and let God. 146 00:12:12,225.99773243 --> 00:12:15,285.99773243 Yeah, there's a scripture that I'm thinking of right now. 147 00:12:15,285.99773243 --> 00:12:23,625.99773243 I'm not sure where it's at, but it, it talks about Jesus, how his yoke is easy in his burden as light, and, and I love it in the message translation. 148 00:12:23,625.99773243 --> 00:12:29,775.99773243 'cause it talks like, are you burned out on religion? Are you burned out on this? Are you burned out on that? And then it says. 149 00:12:30,450.99773243 --> 00:12:37,410.99773243 Come join the OnForce rhythms of grace, and I just love how it says it, the enfor rhythms of grace. 150 00:12:37,680.99773243 --> 00:12:55,320.99773243 So it's like once you just stop trying to make certain things happen on your own, and instead just tap into your, tap into your imagination and just start to think about what it will be like when these things happen and just, and just flow in that, then all of a sudden the en forced rhythms of grace come about. 151 00:12:55,620.99773243 --> 00:12:57,330.99773243 And the, and the cool thing that I love about that. 152 00:12:57,705.99773243 --> 00:13:04,5.99773243 And I believe one of the reasons that God does things that way is it's not that he's trying to keep something from us. 153 00:13:04,65.99773243 --> 00:13:22,845.99773243 He's trying to get things to us, but he's trying to teach us something first and then second, he loves to do it in a way where only he can be the, the reason He loves to do it in a way where when you share the story, it's like you can't help but include him in all the details because you're like, yeah, here's me trying to make this happen to my own. 154 00:13:23,235.99773243 --> 00:13:25,900.99773243 Oh, and then I stopped trying, and then here's how it happened. 155 00:13:26,250.99773243 --> 00:13:31,680.99773243 And so it's just like an undeniable test, undeniable testimony that the Lord did it. 156 00:13:32,190.99773243 --> 00:13:32,310.99773243 Mm-hmm. 157 00:13:33,120.99773243 --> 00:13:38,790.99773243 And I'm just thinking for like everyone that's listening right now, they're probably like, like I just wanted to learn how to rent my rv. 158 00:13:39,0.99773243 --> 00:13:54,270.99773243 But it's like when you're an entrepreneur, you realize like you have to change your mindset and work on yourself in order to be an entrepreneur and to grow your business and, you know, grow your family and raise your kids. 159 00:13:54,730.99773243 --> 00:13:57,820.99773243 It's so much more than just the day to day of running a business. 160 00:13:57,820.99773243 --> 00:13:59,470.99773243 You really have to work on yourself. 161 00:14:00,520.99773243 --> 00:14:00,760.99773243 Yeah. 162 00:14:00,760.99773243 --> 00:14:01,390.99773243 It's so true. 163 00:14:01,390.99773243 --> 00:14:13,360.99773243 I mean, we were just talking about this in, in one of our meetings is one of the, the biggest areas where we support our franchises, where they need support is the mindset. 164 00:14:13,930.99773243 --> 00:14:18,220.99773243 Because you can go buy a course, you can learn anything. 165 00:14:18,220.99773243 --> 00:14:21,100.99773243 You can buy a book, you can go get a book from the library, whatever it is. 166 00:14:21,610.99773243 --> 00:14:26,380.99773243 But if your mindset isn't changing, you know it's not gonna get you there. 167 00:14:26,380.99773243 --> 00:14:29,560.99773243 The strategies, the philosophies, and how it all works. 168 00:14:29,920.99773243 --> 00:14:35,590.99773243 You can go pay to have that, but the mindset is where the most work needs to be done. 169 00:14:35,980.99773243 --> 00:14:48,220.99773243 And, and that's one of the beautiful things to me about the Fireside family is it's a community of like-minded individuals where, where we can encourage each other and we have that common foundation, you know, so. 170 00:14:48,570.99773243 --> 00:15:09,390.99773243 I just want to encourage you guys find that common foundation of people, you know, you think about it, there's Jeep Clubs, there's whatever, dog lover clubs, like all the different things, right? I, there's the, I'm sure there's probably, I don't know why I thought of this, so I'm just gonna say there's probably a club out there for like people who take pride in having like a green weed free lawn. 171 00:15:09,450.99773243 --> 00:15:13,950.99773243 You know, like there's clubs for everything, you know, like join the green Weed Free Lawn Club. 172 00:15:14,370.99773243 --> 00:15:22,590.99773243 Find your people, find your tribe that can help you, that understand your, your physiology and psychology of what's going on in your head. 173 00:15:23,160.99773243 --> 00:15:29,580.99773243 And then allow them to mentor and encourage you so that you can change your mindset because it's so true. 174 00:15:29,860.99773243 --> 00:15:37,330.99773243 At the end of the day, you can have all the tools and strategies and everything, but if your mindset isn't getting work done, if your mindset isn't getting upgraded. 175 00:15:37,725.99773243 --> 00:15:40,905.99773243 You're gonna reach a wall eventually, and you're gonna stay stuck there. 176 00:15:41,85.99773243 --> 00:15:42,795.99773243 Or what you're gonna do is not stay stuck. 177 00:15:42,795.99773243 --> 00:15:43,935.99773243 You're actually gonna go back. 178 00:15:44,415.99773243 --> 00:15:49,185.99773243 You know, you're gonna go back to that land of familiarity and say, okay, I tried this business. 179 00:15:49,425.99773243 --> 00:15:54,465.99773243 It's not working, it didn't work, and you're gonna go back and you're gonna be stuck at a corporate job. 180 00:15:54,525.99773243 --> 00:15:56,325.99773243 'cause you think, well, it just, it didn't work. 181 00:15:56,325.99773243 --> 00:15:56,955.99773243 I tried. 182 00:15:57,285.99773243 --> 00:15:58,185.99773243 But that's not true. 183 00:15:58,215.99773243 --> 00:16:02,25.99773243 You just have to try and try again to continue to learn, to grow your mindset. 184 00:16:02,745.99773243 --> 00:16:03,135.99773243 Yeah. 185 00:16:03,135.99773243 --> 00:16:05,65.99773243 And with mindset one of the. 186 00:16:05,785.99773243 --> 00:16:34,935.99773243 Tips that I love that I'll share with everyone is we had seen Ben Hardy at a mastermind and he has a book The Gap in the Game, and basically like you're just looking like sit down with a piece of paper, write down everything that you've accomplished in the past year, and that's focusing on all of the positives and seeing how far you've come instead of looking at, okay, but I wanted to do this, but I didn't get to do that. 187 00:16:35,260.99773243 --> 00:16:47,410.9977324 But when you have it in black and white and see everything that you've done within that time period, you know, that's where you'll start to be able to imagine a better future and see what you've actually done in your life. 188 00:16:48,730.9977324 --> 00:16:50,500.9977324 Yeah, that's such a powerful principle. 189 00:16:50,500.9977324 --> 00:16:58,120.9977324 I actually have a reminder on my calendar every night at nine o'clock and it says to think of a win that I had for today. 190 00:16:58,795.9977324 --> 00:17:04,645.9977324 Think of one goal that I have for tomorrow and then a question to sleep on, and then I have a journal next to my bed. 191 00:17:05,125.9977324 --> 00:17:09,115.9977324 And then I say this, this prayer, I said, God, I say, God, I value your voice. 192 00:17:09,115.9977324 --> 00:17:10,375.9977324 I value your word to me. 193 00:17:10,375.9977324 --> 00:17:11,935.9977324 I value your instruction to me. 194 00:17:12,325.9977324 --> 00:17:14,185.9977324 I value that you speak to me. 195 00:17:14,785.9977324 --> 00:17:16,195.9977324 I don't wanna just go on with my day. 196 00:17:16,195.9977324 --> 00:17:24,955.9977324 I want to hear what you say and take whatever action is required to respond for you to have your way and for your word to have its full effect. 197 00:17:25,435.9977324 --> 00:17:27,655.9977324 And, and man, you'd be amazed at. 198 00:17:28,390.9977324 --> 00:17:29,50.9977324 What that does. 199 00:17:29,50.9977324 --> 00:17:32,480.9977324 First, you go to bed with a positive mindset because you're focusing on what you. 200 00:17:33,145.9977324 --> 00:17:35,335.9977324 Did do today instead of what you didn't do. 201 00:17:35,575.9977324 --> 00:17:46,285.9977324 And then when you give yourself a question to sleep on, and I'll, and I gotta admit as I'm sharing this, I don't practice this regularly, okay? It's, I have it on my calendar, but I'm not saying I have this down to a science by any means. 202 00:17:46,705.9977324 --> 00:17:51,775.9977324 But you ask a powerful question to sleep on, your subconscious is literally working on that while you're sleeping. 203 00:17:52,45.9977324 --> 00:17:56,35.9977324 I mean, how cool is that? And you literally wake up feeling like you've already accomplished something. 204 00:17:56,725.9977324 --> 00:17:57,565.9977324 And so just. 205 00:17:57,755.9977324 --> 00:17:59,745.9977324 Just take away for everybody today. 206 00:17:59,955.9977324 --> 00:18:01,575.9977324 Tap into that imagination. 207 00:18:01,875.9977324 --> 00:18:13,305.9977324 You know, the scriptures say that we come to Jesus like a little child, and, and what does that mean? It means coming just full of imagination and hope and ideas and curiosity and what if, and life's and adventure. 208 00:18:13,620.9977324 --> 00:18:15,240.9977324 You know, just, just do that. 209 00:18:15,450.9977324 --> 00:18:17,520.9977324 Just start to tap into your imagination. 210 00:18:17,730.9977324 --> 00:18:22,490.9977324 Pick one area of your life where you wanna see an increase and just focus on that. 211 00:18:22,490.9977324 --> 00:18:25,340.9977324 Just imagine what would it look like when this happens. 212 00:18:25,380.9977324 --> 00:18:25,650.9977324 Yeah. 213 00:18:25,650.9977324 --> 00:18:26,100.9977324 I love it. 214 00:18:26,280.9977324 --> 00:18:27,300.9977324 This is a good episode. 215 00:18:27,930.9977324 --> 00:18:31,50.9977324 This is, I was just thinking about it as we we're talking. 216 00:18:31,50.9977324 --> 00:18:32,640.9977324 I'm like, oh, we gotta send this out everywhere. 217 00:18:32,640.9977324 --> 00:18:34,20.9977324 This is, this is good stuff. 218 00:18:34,730.9977324 --> 00:18:35,780.9977324 I'm, I'm pumped up. 219 00:18:35,960.9977324 --> 00:18:41,90.9977324 Well, hey y'all, thanks so much for coming and joining us with another episode of RV Rental Secrets podcast. 220 00:18:41,450.9977324 --> 00:18:42,260.9977324 Hey, let's do this. 221 00:18:42,260.9977324 --> 00:18:45,740.9977324 We just got to speak our mind today on whatever we were feeling and thinking. 222 00:18:46,100.9977324 --> 00:18:47,720.9977324 Why don't you go ahead and throw something in the comments. 223 00:18:47,720.9977324 --> 00:18:51,770.9977324 If you got a topic you want us to talk about on an upcoming episode. 224 00:18:52,10.9977324 --> 00:18:54,980.9977324 You know, we're coming towards the end of the RV rental season. 225 00:18:55,565.9977324 --> 00:18:55,745.9977324 Yeah. 226 00:18:55,775.9977324 --> 00:19:07,735.9977324 And, and you'll start to think about next season if there's something you want to talk about, questions you know, themes, go ahead and put that in the chat and in the comments and we'll, we'll look at those for next episode. 227 00:19:07,735.9977324 --> 00:19:10,465.9977324 So we'll see you all on the next episode. 228 00:19:10,465.9977324 --> 00:19:10,915.9977324 Thanks y'all. 229 00:19:10,915.9977324 --> 00:19:11,605.9977324 God bless.
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