In this solo coaching video, high‑performance coach Sean Buttner opens with a request to like, subscribe, and share, then dives into the theme of ethical decision‑making and the danger of letting small dishonest choices snowball into larger failures. He illustrates the point with a personal story: after sending his ChiliCube (a bedside temperature‑control device) for repair, the company mistakenly shipped him two extra units worth about $600. Rather than keeping the mistake, he chose to return the items, explaining that each decision reflects character and that repeated small compromises can lead to the kind of systemic fraud seen in Enron and Arthur Andersen. He connects this principle to his coaching practice, emphasizing that trust and honesty are foundational to his relationships with clients. The video transitions into a promotion for his free Transformative Performance Habits session on November 15, focusing on five essential sleep strategies, including a demo of the ChiliCube. He argues that optimal sleep fuels energy, which in turn boosts productivity, relationships, focus, and overall happiness. He invites viewers to join the live session, offers a replay via his paid program, and encourages community interaction through comments and questions.
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Sam. Sa. Foreign. Hey, good morning, everyone. Welcome to start your day. Great. Start your day with the coach. I am your certified high performance coach, Sean Butner. And today to start your day. Great. We're going to be talking about being wary of the escalating of escalating bad behavior, the escalating, escalation of commitments that was really hard to get out. But we're live, folks. So first off, if you haven't already, be sure that you like, subscribe or share this video. If you know someone else that needs a little bit of positivity, a little bit of encouragement, a little bit of getting their day in order in the morning so they have a great day, just please help me get the word out. That would be super, super helpful. And why am I talking about the escalation of commitments and this heavy thing that's largely concerning ethics? Well, recently I. Well, let's start with this. Have you ever done some business on the Internet and had someone ship you something wrong, but it was in your favor, right? So you order a book, you get three of your favorite books that they just by chance, and you have the ethical quandary like, what do I do? So I recently sent in one of my chili cubes to get repaired. And the chili cube, if you're not aware of, is this crazy machine that sits by your bed. It's a little cube thing and it has a little bit of water in it. It cools or heats that water and then pumps it into a sheet on your bed so you can sleep better. Right? So just a reminder too, I have a free session for the people in my community next Monday at 1pm PST for just talking about sleep and how to get the best sleep of your life. This is one of my tricks that I really love. So it's a gadget that basically cools your bed, right? That's all you need to know. So I sent in one because it needed some repair. It was leaking and I decided to get a repair like sheet that goes on your bed. So not a huge thing. And excuse me, when I got the box, it was way bigger and I noticed they had given me about. They had given me two extra cubes, which is about $600 worth of stuff on accident, right? And you know, sometimes when somebody makes an error in our favor, we could be tempted to take advantage of it. And many people would, right? And you can get into gaming out if it was more of a hassle or expensive to ship it back or you work with the company or whatever, like, you know, at the end of the day, if it kind of feels like stealing, doesn't it? And so I wouldn't do this in person. If I went up with a thing and the cashier gave me more stuff than I wanted, I would not accept that in person because that would be dishonest, right? And why is that such a important thing to think about? Right? It's because each of our decisions says something about our character. And I really believe that. And I think you should believe it too. Because if you think of some of the most egregious, unethical behavior out there, like Enron and Arthur Anderson, like was it 20 years ago now where it wasn't one big unethical question that crashed, you know, two large companies, destroyed careers, destroyed a lot of value out in the market, screwed a lot of shareholders out of money, nearly caused a worldwide depression because of a series of mistakes, right? It's never one guy in a boardroom with a twisty mustache laughing maniacally saying that they're going to make $1 billion or $1 billion trillion dollars throwback to Dr. Evil there by doing this one really bad thing. It's a series of bad choices. And in Arthur Anderson's case, to generalize, right, they were hiding debt, right? They had failed projects and they would hide it through trickery, tax loopholes and all this stuff and prevented shareholders from seeing it until it became a huge problem, right? So it'd be one thing if there was one failed project for a billion dollars, say, right? That's bad. But if you make $100 billion a year or whatever it is, these numbers are not, you know, exact. But just to prove a point for simplification, if you say, oh, this project failed, you report it on the balance sheet, you let everyone know it's bad, not terrible, right? But if you do it once and then the next project fails and then you do that same behavior of hiding it and all of a sudden you have a hundred failed projects worth a hundred billion dollars that's based on a hundred bad decisions. And again that wrecked reputations, that sent people to jail, it ruined careers and again nearly tanked the economy. So it took many mistakes for Enron and then Arthur Anderson to then collapse, right? And it was again, it wasn't one big event, it was a series of small events of trying to pad the balance sheet, you know, keep investors happy and stuff. And yeah, I would, they would probably argue they had, they're doing their job in protecting the company and shareholders best interests. But ultimately it failed. It destroyed a lot of stuff and it blew up in their face. So. But it's the same thing with character, right? It's the same thing if you choose to be honest today or you choose to lie, if you choose to steal today or you choose to, you know, pony up when there's a mistake in good faith with other people. And so that's how I think about character building. I know this is probably too big of a thing for an error from a company that ships something to you, but I thought it's important, especially for me, in a business that's based on relationships, right? If you have a reputation or you start making these small sacrifices in other areas of your life, inevitably it's going to show up in everything else. So if I lied here, there'd be a chance as a coach I would lie to you at some point. And I can't risk that because that's my livelihood. That's how I help people. And it's intrinsically built on trust. So we need to trust each other. So that's why I'm returning these extra chili cubes to the chili folks. I think that's the appropriate way to say that. I don't really know. But ultimately, guys, what I'm saying is honesty is always best because it keeps you from escalating bad decisions and potentially wrecking the economy. If you're Enron. Arthur Henderson. So just be honest always. Now, since I was talking about the Chili Cube and trying to get the best night's sleep ever, I know I've been talking about this week in a couple of my different communities, especially here, that on Monday, 1:00pm Pacific Standard Time, I have my transformative performance habits monthly session. Right. So this is a new program that I have where I'm going live every month to teach particular habits that'll help you in your performance, help you succeed in your career, your relationships, your health and well being. And you know, as a thank you for being part of my community, I'm opening up the first session to y' all for free. Right? I've been running some workshops around this concept, kind of testing the waters there. Been having a really great response. And so Monday is the the 15th of November in 2001. When you're watching this video, I hope, and so you can check out the link below if you want to attend that for free. And we're going to go over the five must have sleep strategies everyone should have. We'll go over tools like the Chili cube. I'll have a little bit more of a demo of that then to kind of show you guys what that's all about and other tips and tricks that I've had to help me get the best night's sleep ever. And then we'll talk about a couple of advanced sleep strategies, some do's and don'ts and whatnot. Just to make sure you have this area dialed down. Because when you have your sleep dialed on, you have your energy dialed in. And when your energy is dialed in, everything else opens up for you. We know that in high performance studies that energy is a really core component to persuading people, to being productive in your job, to being and being able to deepen relationships, to increase focus and general feelings of happiness. So it's such a crux of performance and if you can get this right or you can improve it by a little bit, it can ripple through the benefits in your life. So you definitely want to be on this session for free by checking out the link in my bio or below where you're watching this video. So again, please do the social media thing. Comment if you have any questions. I get back to you as soon as I can. Let me know if you're not signed up. Definitely sign up for Monday. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to sharing this with you guys. As someone that's had insomnia like I was talking about yesterday for on and off for about 30 years or 25 years or I can't even remember quite a while on and off sleep has been something I've really been paying attention to. Trying to get some tips and tricks on how to make it better. And I'd love to share those notes with you guys in an awesome community where we're all supporting each other and you know if you show up live there will be some prizes. So definitely show up. Definitely ask questions there if you have any. If and I always get this question. So I'm going to say this out now loud now. If you are not able to make it but still want to watch the video, I'm not going to have a replay. But you can join my Transformative Performance Habits monthly program to get the replay through there with maybe a worksheet. I'm still working on that. But you know that'll be the way to get the video and you can watch it at any time at your leisure if you can't make it next Monday. Plus there's some extra bonus trainings that you can find if you go to my homepage. Maybe I'll put that in the link below too if you want to just go and grab that right away? So hope to see you guys on Monday. Hope you have a great weekend. Get some great sleep. Be honest. Always. And this is Sean Butner saying, see you soon. I guess I got to work on the.
