Jan. 7, 2026

The 3 Keys to Success That Will Revolutionize Your Life — Phil Portman’s Playbook

The 3 Keys to Success That Will Revolutionize Your Life — Phil Portman’s Playbook
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Ever wonder why so many fail to truly succeed despite having great ideas and working hard? This week, we sit down with Phil Portman — serial entrepreneur, host of Let’s Talk Success, and member of the Forbes Technology Council — who reveals the truth about what drives real, lasting success.

Phil candidly explains that having ideas alone doesn’t create success; execution is the true queen of achievement. He outlines three essential keys that separate those who get things done from dreamers: clear goals, healthy habits, and unwavering confidence. With simple, proven tactics for goal setting, Phil shares how writing down your goals and sharing them with accountability partners boosts your likelihood of success by 33 to 140 percent.

Balancing the demands of work, family, and life is critical, and Phil offers practical advice on maintaining momentum without burning out. Above all, he emphasizes persistence and a “figure it out” mindset as the most powerful force you can harness to overcome fear, failure, and limiting beliefs on your entrepreneurial and leadership journey.

Whether you’re taking your first steps or scaling up your impact, this episode provides a battle-tested roadmap to reclaim your time, energy, and win big on your terms.

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I've heard people in the past say I got this

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great idea, but I want to discuss it with you

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until we sign an NDA or whatever. I want someone

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to steal this idea. I've had this idea for years.

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I want to want to steal it. Let me tell

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you right now, the value is not in the idea.

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The value is in bringing it to life.

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You've ever wondered what success really is and how you

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define it because different people defind it different ways. And

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if you want to take back your time and own

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your own life and potentially even business, this is the

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episode for you. It's the Limitless Leadership Lounge. We're excited

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to bring in our guests today. I'm John Garring, joined

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as always by doctor Numakareem and Coach Jim Johnson. Coach

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has brought along another guest to dive into the three

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keys to success and so much more when it comes

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to entrepreneurship. So Coach go ahead and introduced Phil Let's

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dive in.

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Yes, I'm excited to have Phil Portman. I had chance

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to talk to him before you invite him to be

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part of our podcast, and he's got some great information

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and stories to share. So let me give you a

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little background. Phil Portman as a serial entrepreneur, host of

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the Let's Talk Success podcast and a member of the

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Forbes Technology Council. He's built five startups and now helps

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others create a life of success through his three Keys

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to Success system, which he's done in a book, Clear goals,

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healthy habits, and confidence. So, without further ado, we're really

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excited to dig into more information from Phil. Phil welcome

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to the Limitless Leadership Launch.

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Yeah, thank you guys for having me excited to chat

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with you.

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To doing excellent. So I'm going to dive right in.

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I know before we hit record, you shared some great stories,

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so we'll get back into that. But with your three

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keieces to success because I did a lot with my

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teams on my players with goal settings. From your perspective,

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because you've built businesses, you also talk before we got

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on camera, your life is that about trying to balance

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family and also your work. So with that, tell us

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what if you found to help people and be a

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more effective goals setter.

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Yeah. Absolutely.

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First thing is write it down. Write down your goals.

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So the data shows us you're thirty three percent more

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likely to achieve a goal by just getting it out

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of your head and getting it down on paper. So

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first and foremost, just get it down on paper. I

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talk to people time and time again. They're like, yeah,

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I got goals, what are they? And then you see

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them look up and they're thinking their processing and it's now,

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let me see those goals. Where are they for me?

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I have goals written, I have whiteboards I have where

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I work out at home. I have my workout goals,

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and then I have right next to it the other

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goals and my goals. I put them in different buckets.

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So I have my family goals, I have my financial goals,

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I have my artistic goals. I have my spiritual goals.

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I break them up into buckets because I want to

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be well balanced. I don't want to be somebody who's

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just focused on one thing. I'm grabbing this life by

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the horns and I want to run with it. I

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want all of it, So I'm not limiting myself to

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one specific goal in one specific category. I want to

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be a balanced individual. So first thing, write down your goals.

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The second thing is share it with somebody. If you

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write down your goals and you share it with somebody,

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you're now seventy six percent more likely to achieve that goal.

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But don't just pick anybody, right, Pick somebody who's going

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to be a good accountability partner with you. Somebody's gonna

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follow you, follow up with you. And those are typically

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the type of people that we want to avoid when

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setting a goal because you know they're going to follow

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up with you on it. But that's the type of

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person you want. You want someone that's going to hold

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you accountable of those goals. All right, I got one

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more so written goal. We've shared with someone who's going

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to hold this accountable. And the last thing is we

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can visualize ourself achieving the goal, or we can visualize

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the steps that it's going to take to achieve that goal.

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We've broken them down, we've determined the path and maybe

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this isn't a goal we're going to achieve tomorrow. Maybe

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it's one we're going to achieve it a year or

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five years, but we've laid out the paths and we

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can visualize ourselves achieving it, we are now one hundred

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and forty percent more likely to achieve that goal. So

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the three things around it our first write it down, second,

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share it with someone, and then visualize your path to

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achieving that goal, and you are one hundred and forty

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percent more likely to achieve it. I get it.

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Just say show one day. I'm a big quote guy,

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and I used to give my players, so you hit

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a chord really strong, because I always said, with goals,

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when you think it inc.

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It absolutely yeah. And I was somebody who years ago

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would just keep them inside my head. And then I

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talk about that whiteboard where I write down goals. I

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started a business. I wrote down a goal. I'd be

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nice to hit the this number. I ended up going

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back to that date and looking up and go, man,

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I number, I'll stretch it a little bit. This time,

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let's stretch your goal. And time again I kept hitting it. Anyways,

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I was telling my wife about this. My wife is

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a fiction author, and she okay, PI, yeah it works

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for you in business, but yeah, I'm gonna go ahead

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and entertain it. And so she went and had wrote

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down her goal or this year, I want to hit

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the top five in my category in sales, and day

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one of the new year, she hit that goal. And

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she can't explain why she didn't do any different than

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marketing been a fluke at the other day. She's now

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a firm believer in written goals. It changes things. It

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makes it real when you actually write them down and

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your brain just starts working towards what it can do

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to achieve that goal. So write down your goals.

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Yep, was muted.

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I hear you because I wrote my goal that I

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want to start a nonprofit when I was twenty five

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years old after working with unseef and then suddenly I

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lost track of time and I pursued my PhD and

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then I started teaching, and then I found my diary

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again and it reminded me like, oh, I did want

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it to start my nonprofit.

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And what happened.

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My father passed away and that was the I think

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that was the trigger. What am I doing?

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Everybody's time is short and we need.

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To follow what we promised ourself.

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And that is when I wrote that goal.

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And I had my accountability partners who really pushed like

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what about your organization that dream? I had one or

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two friends, two close friends who reminded me of my dreams,

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and that is when I started. I just went with it,

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contacted Jim Johnson, and then everything started rolling. But one

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I realized that you cannot sit down with your goal.

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You have to put it into action.

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And once you start to roll, all the resources and

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everything comes up. So it is interesting like how all

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the doors starts to open when you are also visualizing

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so all the technique that you are mentioning.

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So I could see that myself, like, oh, I was.

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Doing that, and now I have too many goals, so

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I have to narrow it down, like too many goals,

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so I have to focus now. So my question is,

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you are a serial entrepreneur and you have so many

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interesting businesses that you pursued. Is there any business that

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is close to your heart that has Oh, this is

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the business that it find me that gives me joy

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something like that, because each business has its own area

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of joy.

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Absolutely.

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So Ever, since I was young, I love the tech

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side of things, So that is what I'm naturally passionate about.

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The problem with that is it could be an addiction

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for me. I could get so obsessed with technology that

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I could spend all day just invested in it, and

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so I think it's important to have balance, and specifically

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balance with nature. So one of the things that I

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really enjoy is my fifty four acre commercial horse farm.

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We have this horse farm, and if you go to

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it right now, it looks like a park. I've got

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this private pond up front that I stock with fish

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and I got micro organisms. I'm like a scientist with

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the pH levels and the water. I've got bubblers in

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it and fountains and stuff. At the back, I have

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a cabin with a dock that goes out to a lake.

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I've got trails throughout the property. I obsess over it.

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But there's something incredibly therapeutic about building things in the

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physical world and looking back and saying I made that

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and made that. There's something about getting out there and

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putting posts in the ground and shoveling gravel, and it's

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just it does something great for the soul. And if

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you read throughout history, some of the most successful people

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will agree with that. George Washington did not want to

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become king because all you wanted to do is get

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back to his farm. I get it. I completely get it.

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There's this balance that we humans have with nature, and

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if you can get out and do something physical, then

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it will provide that balance that you're looking for in

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your life.

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So for me, an.

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Organic experience, and I think it's an organic experience. We

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are all rooted to some organic experience. We can have

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take job, we can start a bank or something like that.

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But the feeling you feel being in.

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The nature, and I got the feeling that you will

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talk about.

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Your farm when I ask you this question. I ride

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it there. I could imagine myself loving this.

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Farm absolutely no. I love everything about it, including the horses,

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the animals that we have on arm or incredible. Last

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year we actually started a nonprofit for special needs children

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all the Michigan Horse Therapy that runs on the farm

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as well. And it's incredible and the science backs it.

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If you look at all of the data, the amount

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of time that a senys to get out do something outdoors.

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There's a churchhill I think used to go out and

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chop trees or something like that. You would just get

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out and chop a tree just to be out in

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the woods. But getting out there in nature and doing

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something physical is something that we humans were meant to do.

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Yeah, I know, but really interesting for me because I'm

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a big workout person, and so was my wife. But

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my wife would go outside every day for a walk,

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and I didn't do much like I played tennis, so

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I play outside from that.

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But it's interesting.

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During COVID, I started to do a walk outside because

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I want to just get outside more. And it's unbelievable.

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It's like something is ingrained in me. Now I just

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have a better day when I do a walk outside.

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You're so right, you hit me hard. Sorry about that, John,

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I had to share a little bit, but go ahead. Sure.

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We talked about success, and this is where I think

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the conversation is going to be so helpful for people,

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because how do you define success? People will, well, it's

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not hard to define success. I want to hit this

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certain level. I wrote down my goals, like Phil told me, right,

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this is how I define success. But success define the

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traditional way or the way we're brought up to believe

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it is might end up having an opposite effect. You

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told us a story about that before our recording. Tell

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us a bit about what success used to mean to

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you and what success means to you now.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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And part of the reason I wrote the book is

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if you look online, you go on social media, you're

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told that success looks this way. It's somebody renting chares

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inside of a private plane to take a photo session.

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they do not own. Right, that's success. Buying stuff that

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you don't want or don't need and giving away your

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life and time that you have towards buying junk is

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not the interpretation of success. It's great to have cool things,

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and it's great if it can buy you the things

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that you really do.

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what success is. For most people, it's identifying their purpose.

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What is your greater purpose in life? We're all gonna die,

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it's inevitable. What is the legacy that you want to

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lead behind? Is it that you had that cool car,

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that big house, the fancy jewelry, the fancy clothes. If

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that's how you want to go down, then great. But

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most of the successful people that I found, the money

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is a byproduct of the purpose driven life that they have.

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And so my own story was I grew up one

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of seven children. We were very poor, raised by a

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single mother. But that single mother had an incredible work ethic.

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wagon in the middle of the night. We were cleaning

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houses with her during the day. We were instilled with

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a solid work ethic at a very young age, and

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so I got into the corporate world. Did that for

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a bit until I ended up having children, and then

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quickly my purpose changed from being somebody who wanted to

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be the successful business man. I wanted the fancy house,

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I wanted the fancy cars. But then suddenly everything was

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rewired when I got married and had kids and said, no,

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I want to be with them. My time with my

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children and my family is important. I want to be

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there for the sports events. I want to be there

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pick them up at school. I want to be there

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to drop them off. I want to be there to

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have conversations with them. I want to be a part

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of their life. And that was my purpose driven life

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that I needed to figure out a change for the

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problem for me is the work ethic. The drive to

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had built up this anxiety inside me. And so when

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I had left my job and started a new company,

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which ultimately was a food delivery company, I franchised it

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across six states. I was once again in an office.

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I was once again traveling, living out of a hotel,

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facetiming with my kids, doing all the things that I

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had done in the corporate world. Instead of delegating these

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things off, instead of automating systems, I.

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doing this? Why am I still working all these days

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when I have employees to do this? And what I

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found was I couldn't sit still. I couldn't relax with

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my family. Even when I was sitting there and we

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were having dinner together, I was checking for emails. There

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was nothing in there, but I was checking for them.

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I was trying to correspond. I was trying to get.

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Things to bring on.

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So how was I ever going to get to a

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point in life where I could let go, where I

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could delegate things, where I could automate processes. I didn't

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want to do that because if I did it, it

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meant I'd have to deal with this anxiety inside. I'd

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have to become still. So I had to start with that.

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I had to figure that component out personally before I

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could ever let go. So I sold my company and

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I started from scratch. I said, I'm going to work

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from home. And then I set myself guidelines and rules

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on what I was going to do with my new business.

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And I did have an accountability partner, which is my wife.

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She was the one. They said, Hey, you said you're

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going to be home more. You said you're going to

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work from home. You said you wanted to be in

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these kids' life.

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You said this.

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I said, you're right, absolutely, workaholic, feel anxiety driven, fill

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he'd find stuff to do. But this new Phil had

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to work through that anxiety and had to be okay

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with letting go. And I'll tell you what happened. Do

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you think my business suffered because I wasn't there. No,

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There is no way that old Phil could be a

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serial entrepreneur running multiple businesses from the tech side to

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horse farm. If I was doing it all, if I

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was taking stuff on, if I wasn't okay with letting go.

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So now I spend more time with my family, more

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time with my kids. My business is more successful than

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ever because I empower people. I have to hire the

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right people I trust, I delegate, I have a team

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around me that runs the things that I need to

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and I'm better off than ever. So where I'm preaching

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now from this level of success is about balance. It's

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about finding balance in your life because if you can

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find time to let go, to delegate, to shed the

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task that you don't need to do because they're ultimately

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just trying to fill this void in you, you will

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find a greater level of success than you've ever experienced

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in your life.

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Man, that's so relatable to entrepreneurs, and it's amazing. It

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doesn't make sense right because we are always everything else

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in life. The input is directly related to the output.

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So the more we put in, the more we get out.

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How come that's not always the case in business?

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Yeah, you reach different levels and the things that worked

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well early on in a startup, which is the hustling

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grind mentality, do not work well when you have employees

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in the business. The first thing is if you're stuck

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in the weeds, you miss the bigger picture of what's

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going on. That's the first thing. The second thing is

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your brain needs time to process all of the stimuli

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from the day to come up with intelligent ideas, intelligent

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direction for the company. If the only time that you're

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coming up with your ideas are when you're standing in

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the shower or when your head hits the pillow and

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you're trying to go to sleep, you probably have a

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lack of relaxation, time time for your brain to process

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all the stimulus. You will be more successful if you

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take time to relax, take time to go for those

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long walks in nature with your wife. When you do

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those things, you're giving your brain time to catch up

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instead of just dumping more into it. You're time to

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process all that stuff. And then when you get back

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into the work environment, suddenly you're looking at things from

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a new approach. You have new ideas, you're solving problems

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that you were stuck on because you had time to

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do all that thing. And then the last thing is

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you're setting a bad precedent for your entire team. So

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what I would find is on the weekend, I'd be

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sitting there messaging my employees what was I telling them

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they were required to do? By doing them, we spent

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evenings and weekends and seven days a week and have

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that same burnout mentality.

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That I had.

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That's not the type of organization that I wanted in

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my head. It was like, I'm messaging them they can

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get back to me on Monday, it's no problem. But no,

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they're saying, the boss is messaging me running now. It's

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got to be urgent and I must be working that.

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And I looked around. I said, why is my leadership?

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Team workis the whole weekends, every days and week They're

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doing it because.

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You did it.

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You And then really where I hit home was my

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son was diagnosed, My oldest son was diagnosed with anxiety disorder.

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And that's something you guys described I was suffering with right.

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It was caused me to work so much and my son,

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I want him to have a better life, said, why

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on earth does he have anxiety? He doesn't have the businesses,

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he doesn't have the stress of bills and employees and

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all that stuff.

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Easy.

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He's the kid, what does he have? What does he have?

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A is a fuck there who's displaying behaviors who although

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he says something, does a different action. So of course

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he's going to develop the behaviors of his father. And

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that was the moment that it became real important for

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me that you have to figure this out, not just

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for yourself, but for your employees, people around you, and

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most importantly your family.

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So, Phil, you've talked a lot about team and I

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know as a leader in leading teams for many years

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myself is tell me what's your formula of how you

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bring on the right people for your team and then

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how to empower them? Because you mentioned that you had

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a team, but you early on, at least from what

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I heard, you didn't empower them very well. So tell

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us first of all, how did you bring the right

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people on? And then that transition. If you're going to

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scale your business, you got to empower your people.

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Yeah, you got it, absolutely.

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So the first thing I need to be able to

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trust somebody. Different leaders have talked about the would you

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go out to have a beer with them? Would you

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have coffee with them? That's the first thing that I'm

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looking for in it need to be aligned with me politically, religiously,

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or geographically, but they do need to be somebody that

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I deep down trust. There's really only one thing that

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will absolutely get you fired from working for me, and

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that is lie to me. Break my trust. That's it.

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I can't It's not something I could deal with. You

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could have the biggest mistake in the world. You could

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cost me tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, which

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I've had employees do, but they're honest about it. They

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come out and admit to their mistakes, and we have

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a level of great communication that we can work through.

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So the first thing is any relationship personal or business

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has to be founded in trust. It has to be

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somebody that I deep down trust.

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Ultimately, the second.

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Thing I'm looking for when I'm hiring somebody is are

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they somebody who is actively educating themselves? A question that

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I'll ask is what's the last book you read? And when,

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as they say, third grade? Look about a lot ah.

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Probably that's something I'm gonna work it. But if there's

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somebody who can list off a list of books that

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they're reading actively and they're engaged in continuously educating themselves,

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that's somebody that I want. Let's go with the stance

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on that real quick. Because something that I found through

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interviewing successful people on my podcast is every single one

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of them that have achieved levels of success, whether it

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was in business or nonprofits or whatever it was, I

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could ask them what book are you reading and they

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could pull it out.

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And tell me.

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The data says, first of all, forty two percent of

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college graduates, after they graduate college will never read a

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full book. Again, Wow, forty two percent will never read

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a book. Okay, that's to the average people. Now let's

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look at the above average. So let's look at the

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top CEOs in the United States. They read roughly one

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book a week, one book a week, roughly fifty two

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books a year they're reading. So the question you asked

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yourself is do you want to be in the classification

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of the average American not reading books at all. I

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get my education online by watching.

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YouTube videos and scrolling through the internet.

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Or do you want to be one of the top

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most successful people who actually read books. So I want

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to know when I'm interviewing people, are they continuously educating themselves.

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And then the third thing that I'm looking for, specifically

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in my leadership is I call it the C solution.

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I'm looking for people that are finding the C solution.

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And what I mean by that is presented with two

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possible answers to a question, the AB solution. Non of

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them are really great, but you gotta choose one. I'm

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looking for somebody who's analyzing that problem and saying this one,

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what about this answer that's not quite apparent but would

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be potentially a better solution for that, and so I'll

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ask questions in the interview to help facilitate that and

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see how they can answer to find that c solution

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out there, because I want people who don't feel like

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they're confined to a box. And oftentimes, unfortunately, our education

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system says you got to do it this way, and

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I'm looking for someone who's saying, I know this is

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the right way, but what if we tried it this way,

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and specifically in a tech world, it really has pushed

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advance and advancements in our company. So those are some

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of the three things that I look for. I'm looking

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for someone that can really trust, educates themselves, and then

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is looking thinking outside the box. What I do not

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look for is titles. I don't really look for titles.

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I'm not really terribly interested on on what their previous

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titles were for the previous companies. I want them to

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have a good understanding of it. But a lot of

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that stuff we can train internally, and because I have

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a unique culture inside my business, oftentimes we promote from

480
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within and we'll actually send somebody to school to learn

481
00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:22.200
about the role they're going to take on, and we've

482
00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:23.720
had success with that doing internally.

483
00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:26.279
I got to do a quick follow up about the books,

484
00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:29.720
because you've strug a real cord. They're successful people reading

485
00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:31.960
one book a week. What do you say to the

486
00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:36.119
people who say I'm too successful, too busy, because that's

487
00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.880
a big time commitment. I don't have time to read

488
00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:39.559
a book a week.

489
00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:44.720
Yeah, that's the point, right, that's the point right there.

490
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:47.279
If you can't go for a walk with your wife,

491
00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:49.400
if you can't slow down to read a book, that's

492
00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:52.440
the point. Summarize this book for me. No, that's not

493
00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.079
the point. The point is that you are dedicating time

494
00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.279
to sit down and read a book. That's why these

495
00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:05.279
people are successful because they're creating time. If you're too busy,

496
00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:07.640
you're always going to be running that rat race, you're

497
00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:10.359
always going to be on that treadmill. You're making a

498
00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:12.880
lot of movement, you're doing stuff, but you're getting nowhere.

499
00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:16.799
That's the point. That is absolutely part of the point.

500
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:18.799
Part of the point towards going to the gym and

501
00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.519
doing exercise, which is another thing that successful people do regularly,

502
00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:25.480
is work out. You'll find time and time. Again, there's

503
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:28.759
some sort of workout routine, could be going for a walk,

504
00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:33.359
going to the gym, swimming. But highly successful people have

505
00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:36.400
some sort of physically at physical activity where they can

506
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.039
de stress and let go of it. So if you're

507
00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:42.720
saying I don't have time for it, you're right, you don't.

508
00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:45.000
But that's part of the roadblown, that's part of the

509
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:45.839
thing you need to solve for.

510
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:50.839
I agree with Philip because I have Like, while I

511
00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:55.079
was working as a magazine editor, I was interviewing like

512
00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.200
many successful business men and women in Bangladesh and a

513
00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:02.359
different part of the world, and one thing that was

514
00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.240
common was they were all into fitness.

515
00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:07.920
There was just one.

516
00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.680
Bangladeshi lady who was like a startup CEO and she

517
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:14.759
has board of directors of so many companies and she

518
00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:20.359
wakes up at four thirty am, does her swimming, then

519
00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.640
listen to music, eat healthy.

520
00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.000
When it was lunchtime, she was eating salad and all

521
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:27.039
this kind of stuff.

522
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:31.839
So it was interesting and while I was interviewing, majority

523
00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:37.559
of the CEOs had this fitness happen, walk, running, jim

524
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.400
martial arts, something like that. So it is so true

525
00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.680
that when you take care of your body, then automatically

526
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:48.480
the mind also follow and take you to that success.

527
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:50.799
So my question to you what are some of the

528
00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:54.359
practice that you do to take care of your mind

529
00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:54.920
and body?

530
00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:57.839
Yeah, I love this question. We'll start with the mind.

531
00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:01.359
Every night I write down I have a grat with

532
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.599
You journal, so I write down things that I'm grateful

533
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:08.960
for in that day. We're hardwired to run from bears

534
00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.839
and lions and things like that, and we're constantly looking

535
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.839
for problems throughout the day. And one of the things

536
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:20.160
that I've learned is you can keep moving up in

537
00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:23.640
life and achieve your goals and your dream but still

538
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:27.960
be worried about the next thing, or still concerned about

539
00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:30.880
whether you're going to achieve the next things and focusing

540
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:35.119
on the negative if you don't take time to actively

541
00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:41.119
appreciate the things that you're grateful for in your life

542
00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:45.119
and think about it. Even now, you live in one

543
00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:52.440
of the wealthiest countries in the wealthiest time and human existence.

544
00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:57.920
Right we're not plagued with diseases left and right, and

545
00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:01.680
the average life expectancy is like forty something years old, right,

546
00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:06.200
Like we've out of all human existence. We're doing pretty

547
00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:07.079
good right now.

548
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:08.000
Think about it.

549
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:09.519
In a few generations ago, if you went to your

550
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.880
grandparents great grandparents and said you're gonna have a device

551
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:16.079
in your pocket that can give you access to all

552
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:19.440
of the world's information. Anything that you could think of,

553
00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:21.640
you're gonna be able to access there. What would they say,

554
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:25.960
that's remarkable? Those are amazing things. But the brains is

555
00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.160
not automatically wired to identify and appreciate those things that

556
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.160
you have in your life. So you have to set

557
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:35.480
time to do it. And for me, I like to

558
00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:37.440
do it before I go to bed, So I'll I

559
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:39.200
have a journal next to my bed, I sit down,

560
00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:41.720
I write it down, and I just think about the

561
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:43.880
things that happen throughout the day that I'm grateful for

562
00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:47.759
that I appreciate. And it could be something somebody said

563
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.599
to me, the fact that or one of my employees

564
00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.079
did a little ex for something without me asking to,

565
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.680
or it could be just the weather that day, right,

566
00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:59.039
it could be anything. But I go to bed with

567
00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:02.839
a smile or la happy and so first and foremost,

568
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:04.799
if you don't already do it, take time write down

569
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:07.400
your gratitude. The next thing I do on a daily

570
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.599
basis is a meditate, and I had read about meditation.

571
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.920
I interviewed people who talked about meditation for a long

572
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.880
time and I never understood it. I said, I tried it,

573
00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.000
and I said, this isn't gonna work for me. My

574
00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.920
brain's too active. I can't do it. And then one

575
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:27.440
day I decided, hey, you've been preaching this type of

576
00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:29.720
the habit behavior thing for a really long time.

577
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:31.640
Just do it. Just shut up and do it.

578
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:35.400
I'm just gonna do it, expect anything from it, and

579
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:36.599
I'm not gonna look for results.

580
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:37.680
I'm just gonna do it.

581
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:42.240
And that was the key formula, not expecting anything from it.

582
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:44.680
So going back to like when you're talking about somebody

583
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:46.559
who doesn't have time to read or somebody doesn't have

584
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:49.519
time to work out, like that's the point. That is

585
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:52.359
the point, and that same point with meditation. It's just

586
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.079
to do it. And then suddenly when you start doing it,

587
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.799
then you start having the realization of the benefits that you're.

588
00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:58.759
Getting from doing it.

589
00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.720
Well, you can't go in to it with the expectations,

590
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.079
just like you can't go into the expectations of hey,

591
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.920
I'm gonna start reading and all my knowledge problems are

592
00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:09.000
going to be solved. No, that's not the point of it.

593
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:11.680
You can't start working out and say, hey, all of

594
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.880
a sudden I'm gonna be muscular and gigantic. No, that's

595
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:16.839
not the point of it. The point of it is

596
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.319
to do it. And it's the same thing that I

597
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.279
learned with meditation. So practicing meditation. You talked about the

598
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.680
daily walks. I do daily walks around my farm. I

599
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:25.880
get out in nature every single day. Doesn't matter if

600
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:28.000
it's cold or rainy. I have to get outside and

601
00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:30.680
do walks. As far as physical health, I work out

602
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.559
five days a week. In some fashion, I have two

603
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:36.680
days of rest, which are Thursdays and Sundays. I don't

604
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:38.680
know that's the correct way of doing it, doing it

605
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.440
for a long time, and I work out different areas

606
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.319
of my body. My wife and I do some like

607
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.759
yoga fitness videos. I think that's more important as I

608
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:50.160
get older, because I got to stretch out a little bit.

609
00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:53.880
I think, say limber. But that's my overview of some

610
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.759
of my mind and body exercises.

611
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:58.160
Yeah, Phil, I got to ask you this. One of

612
00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:01.160
the things you's talked about in your book is confidence.

613
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:05.000
It's an important word for all of us. But I'm

614
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.200
just going to ask this simply, how do you build confidence?

615
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:12.960
Yeah? This is an interesting one, and there's several ways

616
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:16.039
to build confidence. But are you just familiar with mozzles

617
00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:18.920
hierarchy and needs you're pre educated on this. I think

618
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:21.039
part of that is solved with it, which I talk

619
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:25.599
about it in the book a little bit. But building confidence,

620
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:27.559
if you really want the highest, your highest level to

621
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:29.640
reach of that peak, some of your base needs to

622
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:34.400
need to be that at the bottom. And confidence building

623
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.519
is not necessarily something that you can flip a switch

624
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:42.759
really quickly and fix overnight. It needs to be built

625
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:46.559
up through this pyramid of events. Interesting, we spend a

626
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:49.720
lot of time talking about physical and mental health. Where

627
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.880
do those fall on mizzles hierarchy and needs? To the

628
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:58.480
very bottom, very bottom are your physiological needs? If you

629
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:02.839
are currently not feeling physically healthy, how can you ever

630
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.960
be the best version of yourself? So then we work

631
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:07.400
to there and we get into.

632
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.279
The relationship type tape.

633
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.079
Guys, if your relationship with the people who built around

634
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:16.680
you is built on the people who have superficial goals

635
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:20.160
and expectations and you have superficial relationships with them and

636
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:24.240
they're not deep great relationships with people that you love,

637
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.799
then how are you going to be the best version

638
00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.920
of yourself? So we keep moving up this pyramid and

639
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:34.880
then up at the top we find our trueal self

640
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.400
at the top. So for me, it's building it from

641
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:41.759
the base up like you would anything. You would not

642
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:47.359
put a broken house on a poor foundation. And so

643
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:50.319
fortunately there's steps out there. In my book, we go

644
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.599
through a lot of these steps. But it is not

645
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:57.200
an easy thing to do. And so if you pick

646
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.960
up my book, don't expect to just read it through

647
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.559
row in there and be like, Okay, I got it,

648
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:03.599
I know how to do success. Now there's work activities

649
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:05.640
in there that will you be required to do.

650
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.639
So yeah, And I would like to end one thing

651
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:13.400
that I found out that the confidence building also happened

652
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.039
when you are continuing to make a lot of decisions.

653
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:20.800
Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed, but you don't give up.

654
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:25.840
So more and more decision making taking steps. So now

655
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.280
that everybody tells me that you are too confident to

656
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:32.119
go in to take these challenges all the time you're

657
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.400
jumping into different challenges.

658
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.639
But one thing is.

659
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:39.199
I always have that what's worse that could happen? What

660
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:42.440
worse that could happen? And life is a journey, so

661
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:46.239
we can take those steps. And I always tell myself like,

662
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:49.079
I will figure it out. So in a way like

663
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:53.320
I have gone through so many experiences, failures and all

664
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:57.320
these kinds of things, but that also built confident like

665
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:01.519
failure did not scare me. So I think those kind

666
00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:04.679
of experience and definitely, as you have mentioned, when you

667
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:08.559
have your basic levels taken care of, then you have

668
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:11.159
that confidence to take that next level jump.

669
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:13.079
I can do that absolutely.

670
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.480
So in my book, I talk about putting it on

671
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:18.159
a hat of confidence. Right is kind of what you're

672
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:22.599
doing right, And we're all hit with this imposter syndrome

673
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.800
that tells you you can't do that. You even have

674
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:30.599
family members around you who, oh yeah, they're looking on

675
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.519
for your best interest, to be honest, but they're saying,

676
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.880
we can't do that. You can't do that because I

677
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.079
never did that, you can't do that. I love the

678
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.679
quote Steve Jobs said. He said, everything around you, everything

679
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:43.840
that you call life, was made up by people who

680
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.920
were no smarter than you. All of it, the bridges,

681
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:50.400
the buildings, all that stuff. But they had one thing.

682
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.679
They had this belief that they're going to go out

683
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:58.400
and do it. And you're not unique in your thoughts

684
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:02.079
of I can't do that that imposter syndrome or I'm

685
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:04.320
not educated enough, or I don't have this, or I

686
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.440
don't have that. We all have that. That's not unique.

687
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.960
The uniqueness and the successful people is in spite of that,

688
00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:14.199
they still do it. They still say what you said,

689
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:17.440
which is i'll figure it out. Oh my god, that's

690
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:19.880
a great phrase, instead of saying no, I can't do that,

691
00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.320
I'll figure it out. And that is the difference maker

692
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:26.719
time and time again from successful people. I do want

693
00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:29.159
to add something in here. So my wife, if you

694
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.039
would look at my wife, she's not I'm not gonna

695
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:34.519
say timid person, but she's a quieter person. She's just

696
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.239
an introvert. Like that's how she is. She's, without a doubt,

697
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.400
one of the smartest people I know. And when I

698
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:42.599
used to flip houses and do stuff like that, i'd

699
00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:44.880
ever read the builder's manual. She went and took and

700
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.639
got my builder's license. Before I went to Mexico, I

701
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.719
spent the whole time learning Spanish. Barely knew anything. Five

702
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:54.000
days in after knowing no Spanish. She's ordering off the

703
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:57.960
menus and all that stuff in Spanish. She's just very intelligent.

704
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:01.039
But in a conversation where somebody doesn't know what they're

705
00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:05.039
talking about and they're talking to her. She'll be passively

706
00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:08.239
educating them. But if you look at that conversation, you're like,

707
00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:10.760
maybe she's you're probably right. She kind of walks away

708
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:13.079
and she kind of looks sad, like, yeah, you're maybe right.

709
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:14.880
And so oftentimes you look at that you say, if

710
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:18.000
only they had the confidence around it. The Dunning Kruger

711
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:21.360
effect is an example with that, and that's when people

712
00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:26.039
with low ability overestimate their confidence, while highly skilled people

713
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:30.400
underestimate theirs. And so you could, in your circumstance be

714
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.119
victim of the Dunning Kruger effect by underestimating yours. And

715
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.840
it's really the more you know, the more you understand

716
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.400
what you don't know, and that can play on some

717
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.840
confidence too. And I've seen some highly successful, highly educated

718
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.039
people lacking confidence because the more they get into a subject,

719
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:49.039
the more they realize, oh my god, there's so much

720
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I don't know about this, How could I possibly be

721
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an expert? And so understand that you are uniquely amazing

722
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.440
individual if you put on this air of common confidence

723
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.239
and change the mindset from I don't know, I'm not

724
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qualified or whatever and change it to I'm going to

725
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.559
figure this out. I may not have the answers right now,

726
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:11.960
but I'll figure it out. Look at some of the

727
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.960
businesses that started in garages. Do you ever see what

728
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:16.800
Apple looked like? The first Apple? It was like this

729
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:20.599
wooden box with wires hanging out of it. Right, everybody's

730
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:21.320
got to start somewhere.

731
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Amazon.

732
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.639
I saw there was like a sign. They just had

733
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this little office handwritten Amazon on it.

734
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:28.679
Right, We're gonna start somewhere.

735
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:31.039
You gotta put one foot in the in front of

736
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the other and achieve your goals. But put on that

737
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:35.760
hat a confidence like you're saying and say I'll.

738
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Figure it out. Absolutely.

739
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Yeah.

740
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I think for entrepreneurs one thing, and this be my

741
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:42.679
final question for you, Phil, it's just that persistence to

742
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.599
follow through. That's what I've noticed is like, the biggest

743
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:51.320
difference between successful and not successful entrepreneurs is the successful

744
00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:55.679
ones follow through. The unsuccessful ones say, I'm the idea guy,

745
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:58.320
and they come up with all the ideas in the world,

746
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.599
and they're not even bad ideas. That's not the problem.

747
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:06.079
The problem is, in my mind, idea guys are pretty useless.

748
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.760
They're worthless if they don't actually follow through. Chat GPD

749
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:12.800
can give you some great ideas too, So tell us

750
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:16.280
a little bit about what you've done to ensure that

751
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:20.239
you follow through with all those promises that you're making

752
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:24.000
to yourself or all those ideas that you're generating that

753
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:25.400
has led to your success today.

754
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:26.880
Yeah. Absolutely.

755
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.159
I've heard people in the past say I got this

756
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:30.920
great idea, but I want to discuss it with you

757
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:33.639
until we sign an NDA or whatever. I want someone

758
00:39:33.719 --> 00:39:35.880
to steal this idea, or I've had this idea for

759
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:37.559
years and I want someone to steal it. Let me

760
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.239
tell you right now, the value is not in the idea.

761
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:43.840
The value is in bringing it to life. And somebody

762
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:48.000
who has started multiple businesses, I can tell you the

763
00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:51.280
reason why is there's so much more work in bringing

764
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:56.119
that idea to life than just having that idea. So yeah, absolutely,

765
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.599
putting one foot in front of the other is incredibly important.

766
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:02.519
And I've started b businesses that like the food delivery

767
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:06.440
business or tech strip which does business texting, and they're

768
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:12.519
not original, they're not unique. Those companies already existed, and

769
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.880
yet I found success in them. I found success in

770
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:21.239
delivering better customer service. I found success in making it

771
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:25.119
easier for my customers to use it. I found success

772
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:28.440
in making a better product that just worked better. So

773
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:32.599
even though these things existed, they weren't novel ideas, but

774
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:35.280
the work to put them into place and to build

775
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:39.360
them was. And Yes, in my tech world, I come

776
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:41.519
up with a lot of ideas and we test out

777
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:44.320
a lot of stuff and we fail a lot. To

778
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:47.079
bring things to light, first we talked about it. I

779
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:49.360
write down a lot of goals. And in my business

780
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:55.679
work world, I have accountability partners as well. One specifically

781
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:01.800
is my CFO. I am not a budget managing looking

782
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:06.119
over numbers and financials type person. I'm like, well, let's

783
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:10.239
do this, let's go Fortunately, I got that. Wait a minute,

784
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:13.079
let's go through that real quick look at it. And

785
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:16.840
so for me, it's really partnering myself with somebody who's

786
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:22.320
going to compliment me very well. And I think that's

787
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:26.039
the best way to go through life. Is we're social creatures.

788
00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:28.320
We're meant to be in communities, and we're meant to

789
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:33.199
surround ourselves with amazing, competent and credible people who help

790
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:36.599
balance us. You're not going to have all of the skills,

791
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.360
You're not going to do everything on your own. You

792
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:42.159
need a tribe around you. Hopefully you can partner with

793
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:44.119
people who are going to build you up and make

794
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:47.440
you better at what you do. And that's ultimately one

795
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:49.320
of the greatest reasons for my success is that I

796
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.199
have people who help keep me on track, keep me

797
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.840
in line, keep me in budget right, and I've got

798
00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:57.920
some amazing people that have helped me do that well.

799
00:41:57.960 --> 00:41:58.280
Thank you.

800
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.440
I greatly appreciate your time and your wonderful insights. It's

801
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:05.760
interesting made one thing, and you've brought up Steve Jobs

802
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:09.559
one thing, you know, because I read I this book

803
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:12.880
about jobs and he was an interesting creature for sure.

804
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:16.000
But the one thing I really did admire about him

805
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:20.360
was he wanted to make technology simple to the common person.

806
00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:24.079
And that's something that I got from you with your

807
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:26.599
answer is make it a little bit easier, make it

808
00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:29.880
a little bit better, make the customer feel important. Those

809
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:33.400
are all things that we sometimes forget that to run

810
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:36.159
a great business, you don't have to invent a new wheel.

811
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:38.719
You just got to do that wheel better. Thank you

812
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:39.559
so much, Phil.

813
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I look forward to.

814
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.159
Continueing our conversation and admire what you're doing, and maybe

815
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.199
someday I'll get a chance to be on that horse farm.

816
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:49.480
So absolutely time here in Michigan, come out out.

817
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:50.519
Phil.

818
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.440
Tell us too where we can get your book and

819
00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.000
where we can learn more about what you do.

820
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:55.199
Yeah. Absolutely So.

821
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.000
The book is a Three Keys to Success with Phil Porman.

822
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:01.639
If you've got to Philman dot com, you can order

823
00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:04.599
the book directly from the website. You can also follow

824
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:06.559
me on any of the social media platforms.

825
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:07.840
Just look up Phil Portman.

826
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:11.199
I will engage with you directly, So if you want

827
00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:12.840
to shoot me a message on any one of them,

828
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:16.119
got any questions you want to throw out ideas. I

829
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:20.400
love working with entrepreneurs. It's people that can create new things,

830
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:24.000
new opportunities for people. I'm passionate about it. So if

831
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:28.119
you're into entrepreneurship or into success in life in general,

832
00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:30.159
shoot me a message, tell me what you got going on.

833
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.679
Love to hear from you, and go to Philportman dot com.

834
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Philportman dot com links down in the show notes check

835
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:38.639
out the three Keys to Success that will revolutionize how

836
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:40.800
you feel about success and how you feel about life

837
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:43.119
because defining it is so important. We learned so much

838
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.880
from you today, Phil, from simply achieving your goals and

839
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:51.159
setting goals by writing them down and envisioning them, and

840
00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:53.760
all those things you talked about early on, all the

841
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:57.199
way to that balance in life and what makes successful

842
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:00.199
people successful, all those traits that we talked about so

843
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.400
worthwhile for our audience. We can't thank you enough for

844
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:05.280
your time today on the Limitless Leadership Lounge.

845
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:06.599
Thank you so much.

846
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.360
Thank you for joining us this week at the Limitless

847
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:13.440
Leadership Lounge. To listen to this episode again and to

848
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.440
find previous episodes, check us out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

849
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:20.039
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00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:23.000
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852
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:29.280
We'll be back again next week for another try generational

853
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leadership discussion. We'll talk to you then on the Limitless

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