Short trailer/transcript for Episode 23 of the Service Drive Revolution podcast (hosted by Chris Collins). The speakers emphasize that embracing discomfort—learning public speaking, committing to big goals, and managing focus—is essential to high performance and career advancement. The piece mixes personal anecdotes (Collins becoming a young GM) with coaching advice about mindset, focus, and accountability.
The chris collins, inc. Service drive revolution podcast.
We're going to talk about how making yourself uncomfortable is the key to success. And I told him, I said, oh, man, I get sick. I hate public speaking. I'm the quiet guy in the back of the room the whole thing. And he said, just look me right there he goes, you better get over that. I've never seen anybody be successful that didn't learn how to do public speaking. That's a good way to describe it, right?
Yeah.
So you're turning down the noise and the stuff that's killing your time management, killing your focus and all that, and you're just turning up the focus on the stuff that matters because you're getting clarity and you don't have all these conflicting things going on.
How is it that a technician that's been great for 15 years is your top tech, starts making mistakes and then gets into this downward spiral where you can't get out of it, and he makes mistake after mistake after mistake, and then you eventually have to fire him. All along before that, it was a great tag. Understanding how your mind works and kind of getting control of that is powerful regardless of what you're doing in life, you know?
You know, being 29, taking over a dealership as a general manager, knowing nothing really about the sales department, except for I'd fixed a couple Internet sales departments, but that's it. And so he says, there's nothing. There's nothing wrong with being number five.
A lot of guys would like to be number five.
A lot of guys would like to be number five. You know, that was a lonely moment, saying, no, I want to be number one. I want to be number one. It was very uncomfortable. In order to perform at a high level, you're gonna have to learn new tools, and it's gonna be uncomfortable. To be uncomfortable, you got to commit to a big goal. And once you commit to that big goal, you got to tell people.
