This content was created by Larry Weidel. This content was uploaded by Larry Weidel. This is a YouTube video titled "Episode 452: If You Persevere, You’ll Always Break Through – If You Break Through, You’ll Never Regret It" containing an English conversation recorded in March 2024. The episode features Larry Weidel hosting a discussion with David Landrum about perseverance, purpose, passion, and life lessons, focusing on overcoming challenges and the value of persistence in business and life.
Welcome to this episode of the Million Dollar Mastermind. I'm Larry Weddell. And before we get started, if you want to know exactly how to win again and again, go to Wydell on winning.com webinar now to watch something I've put together for you. Now let's get going into this episode of Million Dollar Mastermind. I'm back with David Landrum, and we're going to follow up on some something David has very graciously decided to give me a few more minutes and talk about a statement he said on the last our third episode. And that is if he said, if you persevere, you'll always break through, and if you break through, you'll never regret it, or at least that's what he's found in his own life. And David, that's pretty profound. And you found that you said pretty much after you found the other where that light bulb came to you while you were in the hot tub about the life of purpose and passion is.
Better than which is the is better than life of leisure and pleasure.
Yeah.
So, you know, that, that purpose and passion, you know, is, you know, just, you know, I always found that, you know, I just, you know, we're put here for a reason, you know. And you know, the thing that hit me, too, Larry, man, everybody's important, right? Everybody has value. As a matter of fact, there's only, there's only typically about three, maximum four generations living at any one time.
Yeah.
And so, man, your generation, whatever, whichever one you're in, buddy, it's important.
Yeah.
It's only about three or four living at a time on Earth and on all of Earth. And man, we've been going a long time and hopefully we can continue on in the future. And so, ma', am, we're important. There's a reason we're here and that we can go out there while we are here and make things better. And you know, even if you're in the later, like me, I'm in the fourth quarter. Right. I mean, I started when I was in college. Of course, I was later going to college because of the three years in military. But, you know, when I started my financial business, I was 24 and man, I'm, I'll be 67 in October. So, you know, that's my. So I'm in the fourth quarter of life. Well, but that's important because, man, being able to share and teach the younger generation and those lessons that, as you mentioned earlier, that, man, what if, what if they can, you know, you can learn by experience or instruction. Yeah, man. So instruction is. Is a great. Is a great teacher. Can save you a lot of. Can save you a lot of years. A lot of, you know, I don't know, a lot of. A lot of pain and mistakes.
Talk about. Where did you. Obviously lessons he's phrased about, you know, persevering. What are things that you've had to just hang in there.
And.
You'Re never challenged to persevere unless it's something that you're tempted to give up on. And you're never tempted to give up on something that's just working left and right. You know, success. It's always the stuff that's just bogged down in the mud, you know, and it's just everything you try, it gets bogged down deeper. And that's when you get to the point of. I've tried everything I know to try. It's not working. And why, you know, at some point I gotta go do something else. But why, when you talk about. And that's the decision to make, is when is it stupid to keep trying and when is it important to just lock down and say to yourself, I got to get better, I got to get more help. I got to come all, you know, I need a fresh idea. I got to regroup. Like you say, get. You know, get. Get somebody to come in from the outside and reassess. But. Or just say this is a lost cause and move on to something more productive. How do you. When you look back in your life, when you're in talking to those college students.
And they were.
Would ask you, what are some. That you can look back on, You've never regretted persevering.
Yeah. Well, you know, the thing that I. That I believe is when you. When you think about, you know, persevering and, you know, naturally you want to make sure you get good counsel. But at the same time, I mean, I know when I started my business, you know, there were no cheerleaders. I mean, Jill was not happy about me being at the club full time, going to school full time, had just gotten married. Then I start something on the side in the financial field. But then, because she had our life mapped out, her dad worked in the oil business. We were going to move to Dallas, have 2.3 kids, dog cat management program with Halliburton. Right. That was their game plan for me. But. But I felt the more I started doing, I was kind of. When I got in the financial field, I said, man, you know, money never goes out of style. Right?
Right.
It was popular then. It's popular now. And being able to do that and work my own hours, my own boss, no quotas, be an entrepreneur, no inventory, no franchise fee, no payroll. And I just saw that, the freedom. I remember my first office I ever opened. My total overhead. I've been in four months. My total business overhead was Jill put the bank and was my assistant. So we built it together. By the way, that's another key thing of partnership, if you do have a spouse, to really build a family business. But our total overhead was 500amonth. So anything that the health club that I was running, I had to bring in 9,000amonth before I could pay the owner a dime. So when I looked at this. But. But anyway, so on the as far as.
