Be Careful Who You Are Complaining To

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Hey everyone, I hope you guys are doing awesome today. I'm actually in the car right now heading to go pick up my daughter from soccer practice, which is pretty exciting. She is amazing at soccer and so much fun to watch. And so I'm gonna I'm gonna go grab her and then head home for some dinner. But I had something been going through my head the last 3 or 4 days. Actually, it's been almost a week now. And I wanted to share with you, I've just been super busy and haven't had time to do a podcast specifically about this. And I thought, you know, I got 5 minutes on my drive over to soccer practice, I'm gonna share with you guys really quick. It's not a long one, but I think it's an important one. So the title of this presentation is Be Careful Who You Are Complaining To. All right, now the reason why is because a lot of times we're complaining about stuff this seems like a big deal. But you put it in perspective of other people, other people's lives, or even other people's situations at that second, and they're not that big a deal. And it kind of makes you feel like an idiot when you realize it sometimes. Probably the most dramatic example of this is if you rewind 10 years ago, my wife and I, as you probably have heard, had twin boys. And if you've ever had twins, it's kind of a crazy, amazing but crazy experience. So we basically You know, 6 weeks, you know, my wife's been on bed rest. She's been taking all these drugs to make sure the babies don't come. And 6 weeks early, all of a sudden water breaks, boom, babies are coming. Race to the hospital, all the craziness that ensues with that. We get there and it's not like a normal baby delivery. For those of you who had one baby, which I've had it 3 times since then, so I know how it works. It's you and a doctor and nurse all quietly in a room hanging out and a baby comes out. Like it's pretty easy, right? When you have twins, it's insane. Like they think that you're probably gonna die, especially this is our first kids, we're freaking out anyway. They're in the operating room. And so there's huge operating room, there's 2 NICU teams, there's about 50 other doctors other people, like, okay, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but there's probably 20-some-odd people in this room. Instead of being a nice dark quiet room like normal, you normally give birth in, it's like lit up, lights everywhere, like just insane, right? So my wife goes through this experience. Baby 1 comes out, boom, everything's great. Baby 2 comes out breech, which is a horrible experience, but she gives birth to both of them. And then we go and see the kids and they're in the NICU and the, you know, which is an emotional thing because you see, you know, babies come out and they rip them off and they race them down the NICU. And I had a chance after both babies came out to run the NICU you and see all this craziness happening. And, and, you know, Colette's up doing whatever women do after they give birth. I'm not really sure, but kind of freaks me out to think about it. So they're doing all that kind of stuff, and then she gets to come in later, and it's just an emotional experience. She's crying. You see the babies with all these cords and wires, and it's like emotional, right? And all these things are happening. And then she finally gets to eat and drink, and then we realize we have like nothing for the babies to wear. And so we're like, oh. So Colette gets cleaned up, we jump in a car, and we drive across the street to Fred Meyer to go grab something for her to eat and for the babies and just, you know, a couple little things, right? So in the last 24 hours, my wife has given birth to not one but two babies. She hasn't eaten, hasn't slept, hasn't drank. Like, it's just been craziness, right? And I can't imagine what that's like. But as me, as the husband who's just kind of participating, watching this whole process, I'm like, this is horrible. Like, I am so grateful that's not me, right? And I'm tired, I'm— and I'm honoring, I'm sore, and I'm, you know, all these emotions. I didn't even do anything. I just sat there, right? And so we get to the store, we're buying our things, we're checking out. There's a teenage girl there and she's like, So annoyed to be there and does not want to be talking to us. And, you know, we're trying to be happy, but we're obviously worn out. And I was like, how's it going? She's like, okay, blah, you know, like teenagers do. I'm like, oh yeah, what's going on? She's like, I'm just so tired. I'm like, oh, you are? Like, what's going on? And I think it was like 11 AM at this time, so it's been like, I don't know, 30 hours since we've, since We were woken up because my wife was about to have a baby, right? And she's like, oh, I had to get up early this morning, I gotta be here by 11. I gotta be here at 11, so what time do I have to get up? 9, I'm so tired, I didn't go to bed last night until 1. And we're like, oh, so you only had 8 hours of sleep last night, and you're so tired. And we're sitting there smiling like, I can't believe you're complaining about how tired you are, you had 8 hours of sleep last night, you're a teenager, you have zero stress in the world, and you're complaining. And it was kind of funny to us at the time, right? Anyway, so I thought it was kind of funny. Last week I was out with these guys. This is, if you listen to the podcast last week, Monday night I was at the office like 3 or 4 in the morning. Tuesday was the same thing. I think I had 3 hours of sleep that night. And then Wednesday I had a full day and then I went out with, to go meet some people and I'm talking to the guys and he's like, "Oh, I'm so tired." I'm like, "Oh really, like what's going on?" He's like, "Oh, you know, I got off work at like 6 and then, you know, kids and dinner and all this stress and, you know, whatever and I'm just really, really tired." I just kind of smile like, "Oh man, that sounds horrible. You've got to be tired. I mean, you woke up, went to the office, and then you came home, and then you were off the clock, and then you saw your kids and you were done, and that was it, right?" I'm like, "I have been at the office till past 3 AM the last 2 mornings in a row, and after I'm done with you guys today, I'm going back in the office." And it just made me smile because I'm like, you were complaining about being tired, and like, it's just funny because you don't know who you're complaining to. Like, someone who has had 1/10 the sleep that you have, And it just makes me kind of smile. So what I want to share with you guys today is just be careful who you're complaining to because chances are people around all of us have it worse off than we do. I was telling my kids last night, I was like, if you think about 200 years ago, people lived in log cabins. They didn't have toilets that flush. They did not have phones. They didn't have computers. 200 years ago. And everything prior to 200 years, so 300 years, 400, 1,000, 5,000, like back as far as you want to go to the beginning of time. Like people had a really crappy time. They didn't live a night like If you complain about anything in this day and age, like that's kind of sad at this point. Do you have a roof over your head? All right, does your toilet flush? Okay, you're doing fine then. Quit complaining, right? And so not only should we all just quit complaining as a whole, when you are complaining, just be careful who you're complaining to because chances are the person around you had just as tough a day if not worse and you're just going to look dumb if you're complaining to yourself or to them about what happened. So anyway, that's all I got for today. I hope that helps somebody. Keeps us all from quick complain and to be grateful for the roof over our head, the flushing toilets, and all the other amazing stuff that we are blessed with because we were born in today's day and time. So that's what I got for you guys today. Appreciate you all. Have an amazing day, and I'll talk to you guys all again soon. Bye. Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson again. I want to thank you for listening to Marketing Your Car, and I want to make sure you're plugging into everything that we're doing on a daily basis. And so make sure that every morning you're plugging into the Marketing Your Car training. If you go to marketingyourcar.com, you can join the email list to make sure you get email notifications when new episodes come out.. You can also get links to all the transcripts of every single show we've done in the past. But then every night, well not every night, but most every night, I also do a Periscope show called the Marketing Quickie Show. 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