Kenny Chapman (the 'Blue Collar Coach') presents a short motivational talk titled 'The Diversion Factor.' He asks listeners to notice the ways they divert responsibility—small lies, blaming the economy or lack of help—and encourages taking ownership for results, mindset, team, and actions. He frames responsibility as focusing on what you can control (vision, execution, accountability) and releasing what you cannot.
Foreign Are you using this diversion factor, this diversion technique, this diversion challenge, if you will. Kenny Chapman here, the blue collar coach. Happy freedom Friday. Focus to you. I want you to think about the ways that you divert focus, the ways that you let yourself off the hook. We just wrapped up our management growth academy. We still got some flip charts around in the, in the training room where I'm shooting today. And I want you to think about just really your own results, your own situation. And there's a little thing that comes to life saying, oh, do you ever tell yourself lies? Well, I just tell myself the little white lies, right? The ones that don't really matter. Really, what are those? If I start to coach you, if I start to think about it, if I brought you to a strategic growth intensive, my all day deep dive day and we started digging in, are they showing up like there's not enough good help? There's either there's a poor economy or because a good economy, there's no good help and then there's going to be a poor economy once there's an election or whatever the case might be. Here's one that came up at management Growth. This business is hard, is it? Is this business really hard? Maybe that's a perspective thing. How else do these show up? These are the little ones, right? Here's one of the big ones. When you block yourself from taking responsibility, when we look at managers that are here, empowered, they came, we did an intimate deep dive, two days and their owner sent them because they want to empower them, they want them to take responsibility. And I want you to think about whether you're a brand new apprentice or you're an owner of an organization. I want you to think about your own responsibility. You're responsible for your own results. You're responsible for your mindset, for your choices, for your team, the people you surround yourself with, where you invest your time, energy, mindset, mindset and mental food, you're responsible for all those things. So I want you to think about responsibility for everything that's yours and then releasing everything that's not yours. You want to take massive action on everything that you can control and release everything that you can control. Are there stories you're telling yourself? Are limiting beliefs turning into massive global beliefs because they've come unchecked? Think about the diversion factors, you use the diversion techniques, ways that you let yourself off the hook because maybe it was somebody else's problem, maybe it was out there, maybe it was this or that. There's that old cliche, Kris Krew drops it a lot. I love it. If it's going to be, it's up to me now. What does that mean? It's up to me to build my team. It's up to me to take responsibility. It doesn't mean I'm going to do it all. There's no question about that. But it's going to be up to me. My vision, my execution and how I hold myself accountable for results. Until we talk, my friends, have a better than fantastic weekend. Have happy freedom Friday. We'll see you soon. Cheers.
