Kenny Chapman talks about controlling your response to life's events rather than the events themselves. He pushes you to think about your thinking, arguing that's where real happiness comes from.
Hey, my friends, Kenny Chapman here, the blue collar coach with a little freedom Friday focus message to you today. I want to talk about control for just a moment. Now, you know, there's various ways to find happiness in life, but one of the most elusive ways to find happiness is for you to attempt to control all the things that happen in your life. See, we have this kind of struggle that goes on, right? We want to control certain things, things we want to be in control, we want to make more money so we have more control over the options that we can bring into our life. Whether, you know, for, regardless of whether it's for lodging, whether it's food, you know, water, whatever that looks like, right? It's an enhancement of life. But what happens, you're a top performer, you could be an entrepreneur, you might be a top manager, you're somebody that gets things done, right? And therefore you kind of want to control that. You want to control the process, you want to control the outcome, you're attached to the the outcome, all those things which ultimately lead you to be challenged when it comes to being happy. Now, I believe in top performing companies, I believe in self managed companies. I believe in top performing human beings unlocking their greatest potential, right? So here's where I want you to think is we're heading into a holiday weekend here in the States and we got this great thing. Lovely Christy and I are up here in Snowmass, Aspen area. We got the Jazz fest thing happening up around the way here, kicking off tonight, friends on the way up. So there's a lot of things, you know, I'd like to control that. We have great weather this weekend. But what, Keith Urban's here this year. He was here several years back and it poured. Lovely Christy and I sat in the rain and watched him. And it's one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Never. If I had control, I would not have let it rain that night. Now let me ask you about your company, let me ask you about your life, let me ask you about certain things because here's what you get to control, how you think about things, how you respond, okay? Now everything in your life is built on how you respond. Now that's not reactivity. I'm not saying you just sit around and wait for all this stuff to come to you. What I'm saying is when you respond, you have that 3am Wake up call. I was getting a hard time on Facebook yesterday. Maybe I got up at three in the morning because I had to pee, not because I was so Passionate, fired up about what we're doing to improve lives and change the game and change the world. But nonetheless, maybe you wake up and you have that look like now the risk that you have to that idea dictates your journey. It's everything for you, my friend. Think about it. How many of those ideas have you had come in and go before Shark Tank? Remember, you'd sit around going, oh, man, I should invent a blanket that has arms and a place for your head. And I'll just lay around on the couch, but I'll have my arms out and I can control the TV and I can play video games. Freaking Snuggie. Oh my God. You know how many people thought of the snoggy? Somebody thought of it and actually went, you know what? I'm going to respond to that idea and I'm going to do something. People are going to laugh at me. Call me crazy, but I want to do something different. What about you? You're heading into a holiday weekend. If you're here in the us, here in Canada or Australia, I hope you have a phenomenal weekend. I hope you're continuing to dig in and change the game. Regardless of where you are or what you're doing, I want you to think about you. My mentor, Dan Sullivan, talks about the power of thinking about your thinking, my friend, if you can control how you think about your thinking, everything in your life changes. Some of the strategic byproducts that come at you, the ways things change, the weather changes, the game changes, the economy changes, your business model completely goes away now, I mean, the way currency is used in the world is changing right now. It's unbelievable. It we can't control that. And I can be really unhappy because I don't have control over hardly anything that happens in my life. But I can control response. Think about that until we talk, my friends. Have a better than fantastic weekend and we will talk very soon. All my best.
