Two Lessons I Learned From My Dad

Good morning everybody! I hope you guys are doing amazing. My name is Russell Brunson and I want to welcome you to Marketing in Your Car. Welcome to the Marketing in Your Car podcast where you can increase your traffic, conversions, and sales in just 10 minutes a day. And now here's your host, Russell Brunson. Alright guys, it's a beautiful day, beautiful day. I'm excited. I got my haircut yesterday as you guys heard, which is nice. And I wanted to add, I was thinking about it as I was getting my hair cut, and there's one other thing I was telling you guys about some of my OCD with like socks and stuff. And I realized another reason why I hate socks. So I'm gonna chalk up one more thing to my OCD-ness and then we'll get back to business. So you know when you have pants on like Levi's and shoes and socks and you have white socks underneath, right? And you sit and like, when you're standing, your pants are the right length most of the time. But sometimes you sit and they come up and you can see your white socks. It feels like you're at high water. Anyway, I hate that too. So when you have sandals on, flip-flops, and you sit down, and if your pants are a little bit higher, nobody knows. You got white socks on, everybody knows. So another reason why I hate socks. Alright, so now that we are over that, let's get back to work. So this morning was awesome. Woke up early, went out there doing squats and legs, and had a good leg day. And at the end of leg day, I thought, oh, I'm gonna do box jumps because that'll be a great way to destroy my legs at the end of leg day, right? And I learned a very valuable lesson that's important for all of you guys who do legs, and that is don't do box jumps at the end of leg day. Because somewhere in the 10, you know, I did 3 sets of 10 box jumps, really the higher ones. I was about 3 box jumps left and I slipped and smacked my shin in 2 spots on the box and I am bleeding and I've got a goosebump the size of a golf ball on my leg and then that and the one above it are both bleeding like crazy. So that, that was not fun. Another lesson to learn today. Alright, so today I've actually got 2 important lessons that actually are useful as opposed to the ones I gave you yesterday and today. So I hope that you made it through yesterday and now you guys are prepared for some good stuff. So I'm going to teach you guys 2 lessons that I learned from my dad that have been vital to everything in my life. And I think that they are helpful for you and for your kids and for everybody you guys work with and have a chance to serve. And so I've been thinking about this a lot because my dad and I next week are actually going to the NCAA wrestling tournament. So as you guys know, I'm kind of obsessed with wrestling and wrestling, we're not on TV, we don't get, you know, people show up at our matches. I mean, it's just kind of like, it's a sport that gets very little love, right? And so the once a year when like, it's like a big deal and we're actually on ESPN, maybe it's ESPN2, I don't even know, but we're actually on TV, NCAA wrestling tournament. And so a couple years ago, my wife and my dad surprised me They booked me a trip out to the NCAAs. I didn't know. They basically said, "Here's airplane tickets. You're going somewhere." And I kind of knew. I'm like, "Well, I know NCAA tournament's this weekend. Everyone at the airport's got cauliflower ear. I kind of know what's happening, right?" So I'm getting there and they're like, "When you land in Denver, open this package, but don't open it before." So I land in Denver, open the package, and there's two tickets to the NCAA tournament, and it says, "Meet your dad at terminal whatever." And it was just the coolest gift. I had no idea he was coming. And went over to that terminal, my dad was there, and we went to NCAAs together. And had a great time. That was probably 5 or 6 years ago. And so I've gone back once or twice since then. Dagan Smith, my man, invited me a couple times and we, I think 2 NCAs ago, he got me front row tickets so I flew in, got front row tickets to the finals, we watched the finals together and then I flew out which was so cool. And so this year, Dagan's like, hey, you going? And I was like, I don't think I'm gonna go this year. I just have so much stuff happening with our live event. And then I was like, you know what, if my dad went with me it'd be worth it. And so I text my dad like, hey dad, if I get tickets to NCAA, you in? And he texts back, Yes, and I was like, cool. And that was before church a couple weeks ago. So then after church I called him and I was like, hey, just wanna make sure you're in. He's like, we better be going. He's like, I've been telling everybody that I'm going to the NCAA tournament. So I'm like, sweet, man. So we bought tickets and it's in Madison Square Garden this year in New York. And so we got a place downtown, we're gonna be staying. Got 12th row seats. I was trying to get front row seats, but they are gone. So we got 12th row seats, which is pretty sweet. And it's gonna be fun. So I'm excited, looking forward to that. And so just been thinking about my dad a lot. And actually called him last, or called him on my birthday, Tuesday's my birthday, he called me on my birthday and we talked for an hour and it was just super fun. So I started thinking about him and just cool stuff that I've learned from him and like I said, there's 2 lessons that I think were really, really important and that I wanna share with you guys. So lesson number 1, my dad used to always tell me when we'd have our little dad conversations, you know, we're driving or whatever and I don't even know how it came up but I remember him saying this multiple times and it had like a really big impact on me. I was always hearing this thought in my head, but he used to tell me, he said, "There's two kinds of people in this world, Russell." He said, "There are people who are really good at finding problems." He's like, "That's the majority of the world." He said, "The second kind of person are people that are really good at finding answers." And he says, "You wanna make sure that you're the type of person that finds answers." And I remember hearing that and I thought it was cool, but it didn't make sense to me then, right? And I fast forward and I start this business and I start doing things and I realized That's how the majority of the world is. They're finding problems all the time, right? They come to you with, "Here's a problem, here's another problem, here's a problem, here's a—" and they're just all about finding problems. And it's about as hard to find a problem as it is to find a solution. And so as I started this business and I realized that people always have these problems, I thought— I went back to my dad's lesson. I thought, you know, I'm like, there's a lot of problems out there. I don't want to be the dude who's always finding problems. Let me be the guy who finds solutions. And man, that served me my whole life. It served me so much my business. You look at why we create products, like it's— we are creating answers to people's problems. And so problems are everywhere, like we just got to figure out how to solve those problems and people will give you insane amounts of money for that. I look at my coaching program, look at our software, look at all the stuff that we do, it's all— we're the second person, we're the people that are finding solutions, we're finding answers. And that little nugget that he gave me probably when I was 10 or 11 years old and repeated a few times throughout my childhood has meant the world to me. So that's So that's the first one. I'll repeat that. There's two types of people in this world: people who find problems and people who find solutions. Make sure you're the type of person who finds solutions. So that was number one, which is so cool on so many different levels. So there you go. Then number two, and this is a lesson that was a lot more subtle, and I didn't realize it was a lesson at first. I thought it was more of a guilt trip, but man, it worked. So my parents were really good at giving us chores and making sure that we worked and were producers inside of our family, right? It wasn't like we didn't have work to do, which I'm grateful for. I hated it at the time, but love it now. So one Saturday, you know, as they're giving out the chores to everyone for the Saturday day, well, my chore was to go and to clean his car. And so I went and I washed the outside of it and I washed the inside of it, you know, and I'm spraying the windows down, doing all kinds of stuff.. And then I came into my dad and I said, "Okay, Dad, I'm done." I said, "Do you want to come look at it?" And he looked at me and he said, I can't remember exactly what he said, but basically he said, because I asked him, I'm like, "Do you want to come look at it and make sure it's good and then I'll be done?" And he's like, "Well, are you proud of it?" And I go, "Am I proud of it?" And he said, "If you're proud of it, then you're done." And I remember thinking, "Huh, am I proud of this?" Like, did I— like, and I was thinking in my head, I'm like, well, like, I was like, I know that I cut corners. Like, I was trying to get done so I could go goof off. And he's like, "If you're proud of it, you're done." And I remember thinking, I was like, "Well, let me go check again, Dad. I'm gonna go back and check." So I went back again, I started looking around, and I realized, like, I wasn't that proud of it. Like, I just had, like, you know, gone halfway and did a couple things. And so, like, I went back in the car, and I did it right. I did it in the spot where I was proud of it. I came back and I said, Dad, I'm done. Do you want to come look? He said, are you proud of it? I said, I am. He said, okay, then you're done. And he didn't even have to look at it. He knew that if I was proud of it, that I had done it. And I think that, again, another lesson that served me my whole life. Like, when I look at what I do in wrestling, in business, in parenting, in like all the different things, that comes back to me. Like, well, are you proud of it? Did you do a good enough job that you were proud of it? And if you did, then you're done. Like, go back and do it till you're proud of it, right? And anyway, just, just kind of a little thing that has meant the world to me. So there you go. There's two amazing lessons from my dad. He's just an amazing guy, amazing entrepreneur, amazing father, amazing friend, and someone I look up to. And just excited next week to spend some time with him. It's gonna be amazing. And yeah, so hopefully those lessons that have meant so much to me have meant a lot to you as well. And something you guys can take from this podcast. Alright guys, that's it for today. I'm at the office. We had an amazing day today and I'm excited. So I appreciate you all. Thanks for listening. If you've enjoyed this, please share with your friends, your families, anyone who you think would benefit from it. Post it on Facebook, tweet it out, Instagram it. I don't even know if you can Instagram it. 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