A speaker shares how acting like you own something, whether a home or business, changes how others perceive you and what opportunities come your way. Taking full responsibility for things shifts the dynamic entirely.
What's funny is we were actually at a social committee meeting one evening, and they started to have this conversation at the table, and they were berating renters about how renters don't take care of their houses and how renters don't do this and how renters. And I just spoke up and I said, do any of you know that we rent our house? And there was pure shock amongst the people that were in that room because they didn't realize that I wasn't a homeowner, but I was a home renter. Why am I telling a story? Because, listen, there have been a ton of times where people thought I was the owner of the sales line, which is a historical agency I worked for. There were even more times that people thought I was the owner of Impulse Creative, which is an agency that I worked for, and I wasn't even an owner. I didn't own the house. I didn't own the companies. But people's mentality or perception was, well, he must be the owner. Why? Because I was treating it like it was mine.
