The ONLY Advantage You Need to be Successful (Service Drive Revolution Drive By)

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Welcome, everybody, to your Friday drive by on service Drive revolution. A little something to think about. A little food for thought going into the weekend. Today, we have a question from the audience. But before we get to that question, I want to propose to the team. Gentlemen, our new location. Where we're thinking about moving the office is formally Columbus, Ohio. Do you guys want to know why? Because they're petitioning to name it Flavortown after Guy Fieri. Is that not enough of a reason for us to move? We will. I'm going to speak for the boys. They don't probably want to move. But if Columbus, Ohio changes their name to Flavortown, I think it's unanimous that we would have to move there. Is it not 100%? Like, how can you pass up the chance of saying, like, where do you live? Flavortown. And it can mean so many things. It doesn't just have to be food.

I think my heart's always drawn me to Flavortown.

Flavortown. So please, everybody in Columbus, Ohio, sign that petition and get that in front of the mayor, whoever has to make that decision. But voice of God, what is our question this fine Friday?

The voice of God has a question. Is the voice of God close enough to the voice of God's microphone? Yes, the voice of God has a question. It comes to us from YouTube. I'm writing this here because I don't know where else to turn. I know I can achieve great things, but I can't find it in myself to put in the work because I don't have any belief or confidence in myself. What can I do to follow this entrepreneurial path that I want to take?

Okay, so I'm going to speak. What's the person's name? Voice of God.

Alvarez. 92504.

So, Alvarez.

I'm going to speak from my experience, but.

Growing up the way that I grew up. So I grew up a missionary's kid, very poor.

Lived in Mexico. When I was 13, my stepfather left my mom and I in Washington, basically homeless, although we lived with my grandparents, so we never slept in a car. But I went to four different schools. In eighth grade, I literally, one of the schools, I got punched by the principal. Like, the principal punched me in the chest. We moved four times. I went to four different schools.

Never did I have an example of how to be an entrepreneur. Never did I have an example of how to go to business school.

None of those examples existed for me. The only thing that I had as an example was my grandfather, who was my father at the end of the day. So My mother's dad was, was my father at the end of the day. And his whole thing, like, it's a funny story, but I remember I'm running this big BMW dealership. We're number one in the country. I live in a big house, I'm driving big fancy cars and I'm making big money and I'm, you know, I'm an important person to the outside world looking in. And my grandfather came down to visit me and he's sitting in my big fancy office in the big fancy dealership, and all he cared about is what time I got to work. Like, he's like, so what time do you get to work? And I think I'm like, well, usually I think I'm here by 7:30. And he's like, oh, like I was sleeping in. Like I was taking it easy, that I got to work by, you know, by 7:30 and that I wasn't the first one there. All he cared about was work ethic. He. He told me this thing when, when I was younger, over and over again because he, he would work at the fire department and then if you're a fireman, you get like three or four days off in a row. Like you'll work two days straight and then you get three or four days off. Those three or four days off he would go work. So he would drive truck for trucking companies. He would drive logging trucks up in the hills in Washington. But he was always working. And he used to tell me over and over again when I was a kid that if, if somebody pays you $5 an hour, you give them $10 worth of value. That's just over and over again like, whatever somebody pays you for, give them more value. That, that was always his thing. So I always had this thing in my head that I might not be the smartest out there. I might not come from a background that is privileged. So, you know, nobody's handing me money, nobody's going to help me if I get in trouble, if my back's against the wall, I'm going to have to figure it out myself because there's no calvary coming to save me. I'm on my own if I, if I get in trouble. The business acumen and how to be an entrepreneur was never provided to me by anybody in my family. There were no examples whatsoever for the part. Everybody in my family worked for the government, which was the shipyard in, in Bremerton, Washington. Like, that was kind of my, my example. The only thing that I had as an advantage, the only thing was Work ethic. That was it. Like, I will outwork you. I will stay later than you. I will get there before you. I will read more, I will watch more, I will study more. I'll ask more questions. I'll listen more. I will outwork you in any situation. Like, if you want to go toe to toe with me on that, I'm just. I'm a bulldog. I will outwork you. And so it's all I had. And so you got to understand that. I don't know, if you come from an affluent background and you got $100,000 sitting in the bank because your parents gave it to you or inherited a bunch of money, then I'm probably not the person to ask this question. But if you're an underdog and you grew up poor, you need to shift your focus, and you need to understand that the only asset you have is your work ethic and getting busy. Motion creates motion, action creates action. Like offense is your tool. You got to get to work. Even if you're. If you're doing the wrong things, but you're working, you'll get further ahead than sitting, waiting for bad things to happen to you. You got to move. And so you need to start thinking a little bit different. You need to start analyzing your thought process. The other thing that happens to you is if you're not working hard and you're not in motion, you're going to get depressed, you're going to. You're going to have anxiety, you're going to be sitting there and your mind is going to spin because your inner game is incongruent with what you know is possible. So your subconscious and your conscious mind are in conflict because you know that the only thing you need to do is work, and you're not working. So you're going to get depressed, and then you're going to start to sabotage yourself and you're going to start playing to lose instead of play to win. And so you have to understand that the only thing that you have as an asset is your work ethic. You can outwork anybody. If you get in a bind, if you get in trouble, whatever it is, work is always the answer. There's no reason to get sad if you make a mistake. If you're willing to get back to work, you'll be so busy working that you won't have time to think about the mistakes you made. There's. There's that old Chinese saying, man who rowboat can't rock boat if you're not rowing the boat. If you're not waking up every day to hunt.

Then you're gonna, you're gonna self sabotage and you're gonna get depressed. You, you were made to wake up every day and hunt. Get out there and hunt and kill. That's what it is now. We, we're not cavemen anymore. We don't wake up and go kill animals and drag them back home. We go to the grocery store for that. So now our new hunt, our new purpose is work. Being an entrepreneur, being a manager, leader, whatever it is. Get out there and make things happen. Create, create a solution for a problem and then you're going to start to feel good about yourself. Because if your business or whatever you're doing is solving a problem for customers in a way that you offer better customer service, a better solution, a better widget, whatever it is, the feedback from that is going to make you feel good. But you're only going to do that by working hard. Because just preplan. Here's the thing that people make is a huge mistake is they think, oh, I'm going to go get this job and I'm going to turn this business around or I'm going to go start this company or I'm going to go do this thing and I've got all this great ambition and it's gonna be perfect. And the fact of the matter is whenever I go into a new venture because I've made so many mistakes, I just tell you you're gonna run out of money 90 days in some either your top person's gonna quit six months in like just you have to pre plan that things are gonna go wrong because it's just how it is. The key to happiness is low expectations. And so you're gonna be happier, you're gonna be more fulfilled. And if you're out there working hard, the go to default button is hard work. That's.

You'Ll out get everybody because most people are lazy. Most people want to take a shortcut, most people want a magic pill, right? Just think about how many people buy workout programs like what is it, PX90? Or they join a gym and never go. Most people, that's how gyms make all their money is only like 20, 30% of people that are members actually go to the gym. Your advantage is to be the 1%, the one that will get up earlier than everybody else, that will stay longer, work harder, push yourself. And the magic of all that is when you start pushing yourself into the limits of what you're capable of, you learn things about yourself you would have never learned before you start to tell who you really are, you find out what you're really made of and what you're capable of when you push beyond those limits. And it's fun, it's contagious, and it makes everybody around you better. So.

Reframe the question. Reframe your thought process. But unless you're a trust fund kid and you got a bunch of money in the bank, work. Work is what you're gonna, what you're gonna do to get through everything. So change it. Start to love it. Start to love the pain. It's like when you go to the gym. You can see the pain as something you want to avoid or you can see the pain is something that makes you better. You're better off seeing pain as something that makes you better. So I hope that helps. I'm sorry you're stuck. But you have all the potential in the world. You just got to reframe it and, you know, just know that people care about you. And you, you gotta, you gotta step into the things that you're good at and start feeling good about yourself. And that's all just in how you think you can change the way that you feel about yourself by focusing on some gratitude and the things that you are good at and try to avoid the things that you know are pitfalls or landmines that you know you're not good at. Get somebody else to do that stuff. Thank you for your question. We're going to send you some swag and I hope everybody has a great weekend. But. But before you go, make sure you check out this preview of next week's Service Drive Revolution. This week, a look back on the first half of 2020 and the best advice from the number one show in automotive that's taking service drives everywhere. From stalled to supercharged service Drive Revolution.

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