July 9, 2025
934. Do It Yourself Or Get Left Behind
Send us a text How do you build something massive without waiting on anyone? You do it yourself. In this episode, I break down Bernie Marcus’ billion-dollar mindset and why taking action without permission is the only way forward. Support the show 📣Who needs to hear this episode? Please share with ONE PERSON who needs to hear this message. 🛑 Watch & subscribe to episodes on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiNqFo05MJ6_yCu1vJ3rX4A 📝Show your ❤️ by thumbing a quick ra...
How do you build something massive without waiting on anyone? You do it yourself. In this episode, I break down Bernie Marcus’ billion-dollar mindset and why taking action without permission is the only way forward.
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Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough.
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All right.
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3, 2, 1. Let's get it.
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I am so happy to be back here with you.
00:00:04.259 --> 00:00:06.240
Welcome to What's Your Problem, the podcast.
00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:07.290
Let's get this outta the way.
00:00:07.530 --> 00:00:09.269
Welcome to What's Your Problem, the podcast.
00:00:09.269 --> 00:00:13.349
I'm your host, Marsh Buice If you've been here a time or 10 man, welcome back.
00:00:13.349 --> 00:00:16.280
Thanks for making us top 3% podcast in the world.
00:00:16.579 --> 00:00:22.160
If this is our first time meeting, sorry, I'm just eager to share today's message.
00:00:22.219 --> 00:00:23.179
I'm fired up.
00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:25.879
But welcome and I hope that you'll subscribe.
00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:32.209
'cause man, this guy's kind of crazy, but I like him and I wanna come on back today, man, a title.
00:00:32.209 --> 00:00:34.939
Today's message, do it Yourself or Get Left Behind.
00:00:35.268 --> 00:00:37.308
And this comes from the inspiration.
00:00:37.308 --> 00:00:40.753
Right now I'm reading Bernie Marcus' book, kick Up Some Dust.
00:00:41.598 --> 00:00:46.159
And I'm early on in the book, man, but I'm, I pay attention to things that sting my soul.
00:00:46.429 --> 00:00:48.500
And on page 52, it just snagged me.
00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:50.329
I'm like, bro, I gotta stop the bus.
00:00:50.750 --> 00:00:52.069
I'm not gonna read any further.
00:00:52.069 --> 00:01:00.878
I gotta share this because the more I share, I gain a better understanding, and then I can apply it better to my life as, as well.
00:01:00.878 --> 00:01:04.149
So I'm not telling you things that I'm not doing myself.
00:01:04.149 --> 00:01:08.484
I. I'm not, I'm not just sitting here preaching, trying to make myself look smart.
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It's not about that.
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Well read.
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I'm, I don't care about that.
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It's, you know, these things, man, like.
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If I don't get anything else from this book on page 52, if the rest of the whatever pages, 300 pages, I don't get nothing else out of it, so be it.
00:01:22.884 --> 00:01:27.804
I got a lifetime right there and that's what reading can can actually do for you.
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So on page 52, lemme read to you what he wrote.
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He said, my approach back then he was 28.
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My approach back then could be distilled down to one simple idea.
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Don't sit back and wait for someone to tell you what to do.
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Pay attention to people who are successful.
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Ask questions, make a plan, and then do it yourself, bro.
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That's it.
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That is the complete blueprint right there.
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That's the mindset that you gotta have.
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That's how you go from nothing.
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His, his family was poor to running a billion dollar operation by 28 years old.
00:02:05.596 --> 00:02:08.806
And bro, I think this was like back in the late fifties, early sixties.
00:02:09.045 --> 00:02:11.746
So I, whatever that converts to be today.
00:02:12.135 --> 00:02:17.415
See, Bernie Marcus was not worried about what he was being paid for.
00:02:17.746 --> 00:02:19.336
He wasn't sitting around.
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Hoping that someone would notice him.
00:02:21.811 --> 00:02:25.020
He focused on learning every aspect of the business.
00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:26.251
That's exactly what he said.
00:02:26.281 --> 00:02:33.741
He said, I was passionate about understanding every aspect of the business because he had a big picture in mind.
00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:36.040
He didn't need everything to go perfectly.
00:02:36.608 --> 00:02:39.307
He said, I was not afraid to try new things.
00:02:39.427 --> 00:02:45.518
Some things worked, most things didn't, bro, that line right there, some things worked.
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Most things didn't.
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Most people don't.
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They don't want to hear that, and they don't wanna do that.
00:02:51.605 --> 00:02:55.596
To know that you're gonna try something and most of the time it's not gonna work.
00:02:55.656 --> 00:03:02.015
Most people are out, they check out, they want certainty, they want guarantees, they want instant results.
00:03:02.165 --> 00:03:05.586
But Bernie Marcus understood the long game.
00:03:06.216 --> 00:03:08.765
He didn't need it to be a one-to-one ratio.
00:03:09.286 --> 00:03:11.925
If I do this, this is what I get as a result.
00:03:12.466 --> 00:03:19.383
He said, let me try 10 things, and if one thing works and the other nine fail, I still win.
00:03:20.013 --> 00:03:26.372
Bro, that is so powerful to me because so many people quit after one setback.
00:03:26.582 --> 00:03:36.323
Then they play it safe, then they play it comfortable, and they wonder why things aren't working out, if I fail more than you, I'm winning.
00:03:37.045 --> 00:03:47.721
That's how you have to think because if you're still in the game, if you're still growing, if you're still swinging, every mistake becomes another tool in your toolbox.
00:03:48.228 --> 00:03:57.927
Bernie said, each mistake taught me something important, and within three years I was running a division that was doing a billion dollars in business at age 28.
00:03:58.617 --> 00:04:00.568
What the hell were you doing at age 28?
00:04:00.897 --> 00:04:02.068
I wasn't doing that.
00:04:03.643 --> 00:04:05.473
I was not doing that at all.
00:04:05.742 --> 00:04:06.073
Shit.
00:04:06.073 --> 00:04:06.823
What was I doing?
00:04:06.872 --> 00:04:09.092
I was three years into the car business.
00:04:09.513 --> 00:04:10.443
That's what I was doing.
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Just struggling driving a regular cab, Nissan truck, five speed manual transmission with bitch keyed in the side because some chick was mad that.
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I didn't wanna be with her.
00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:25.779
That's what I was doing at 28.
00:04:26.230 --> 00:04:27.939
And here this guy was doing here.
00:04:27.939 --> 00:04:32.536
Bernie Marcus was doing a billion dollar business, but he was doing it.
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Because he wasn't waiting for anyone to tell him what to do.
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He did it himself.
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And that's the part, bro, I wanna drive home to you today.
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Stop waiting for permission.
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Stop waiting for someone to teach you.
00:04:46.141 --> 00:04:49.651
Stop waiting for the pay before you put in the effort.
00:04:50.130 --> 00:04:53.370
If you keep waiting, the only thing you're gonna get.
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Is the leftovers.
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And the leftovers are the scraps.
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You're gonna be outpaced by someone with half the talent and twice the urgency.
00:05:03.668 --> 00:05:05.798
Let me say this, nobody's coming to teach you.
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Nobody's gonna walk up to you and say, Hey, here's how you become indispensable.
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School's out.
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Make your own damn school.
00:05:15.151 --> 00:05:16.800
Create your own damn curriculum.
00:05:17.190 --> 00:05:18.750
Make every job your classroom.
00:05:19.021 --> 00:05:20.341
Make every rep a lesson.
00:05:20.581 --> 00:05:24.416
Make every mistake a tutor, and you better pay attention.
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Pay attention not to the people who think like you, not to the ones who are just as stuck as you are.
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No.
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Pay attention to the people who are successful.
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Watch what they do and don't expect them to slow down to teach you.
00:05:39.529 --> 00:05:45.290
You gotta catch up, ask questions, make a plan, and then do it yourself.
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That's the mantra.
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That's how you become indispensable.
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Because we're all replaceable.
00:05:51.274 --> 00:06:08.084
Every single one of us is, don't think for one minute, you're not in a heartbeat, but when you lighten the load for someone else and you take on more than you ask for, when you start solving problems before someone even notices them, you become the person they can't afford to lose.
00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:10.040
You don't get that from sitting back.
00:06:10.339 --> 00:06:12.110
You don't get that from playing it safe.
00:06:12.740 --> 00:06:21.529
You get that from showing up every damn day with your eyes wide open, looking to grow, willing to fail, hungry to learn.
00:06:22.220 --> 00:06:24.110
This is what I call shelfed experiences.
00:06:24.829 --> 00:06:29.404
You don't always get to use what you learned that day, so you gotta put it on the shelf.
00:06:29.971 --> 00:06:38.581
But one day that experience is going to come back around and when it does, you pull it off the shelf, you're the only one who's ready.
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And you'll be the one with the reps. Nobody else put in.
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Everything matters.
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Everything counts.
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Everything connects.
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Bernie Marcus didn't stumble into a billion dollar business.
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He earned it by trying and failing and trying again, and he kept doing it himself.
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That was the mantra, and maybe that needs to be your mantra too.
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Do it yourself.
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Let that be the reason why you grow.
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Let that be the reason why you break through, not because someone gave you the playbook, because you wrote it.
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Let's get outta here.
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Please share this episode with one person.
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Continue to grow the show.
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Leave a rating and review.
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This is the only way we can get the word out.
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Keep it simple.
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Keep it moving.
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Never settle.
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Stay tough.
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Peace.
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All right.
00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:01.469
3, 2, 1. Let's get it.
00:00:01.770 --> 00:00:04.259
I am so happy to be back here with you.
00:00:04.259 --> 00:00:06.240
Welcome to What's Your Problem, the podcast.
00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:07.290
Let's get this outta the way.
00:00:07.530 --> 00:00:09.269
Welcome to What's Your Problem, the podcast.
00:00:09.269 --> 00:00:13.349
I'm your host, Marsh Buice If you've been here a time or 10 man, welcome back.
00:00:13.349 --> 00:00:16.280
Thanks for making us top 3% podcast in the world.
00:00:16.579 --> 00:00:22.160
If this is our first time meeting, sorry, I'm just eager to share today's message.
00:00:22.219 --> 00:00:23.179
I'm fired up.
00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:25.879
But welcome and I hope that you'll subscribe.
00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:32.209
'cause man, this guy's kind of crazy, but I like him and I wanna come on back today, man, a title.
00:00:32.209 --> 00:00:34.939
Today's message, do it Yourself or Get Left Behind.
00:00:35.268 --> 00:00:37.308
And this comes from the inspiration.
00:00:37.308 --> 00:00:40.753
Right now I'm reading Bernie Marcus' book, kick Up Some Dust.
00:00:41.598 --> 00:00:46.159
And I'm early on in the book, man, but I'm, I pay attention to things that sting my soul.
00:00:46.429 --> 00:00:48.500
And on page 52, it just snagged me.
00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:50.329
I'm like, bro, I gotta stop the bus.
00:00:50.750 --> 00:00:52.069
I'm not gonna read any further.
00:00:52.069 --> 00:01:00.878
I gotta share this because the more I share, I gain a better understanding, and then I can apply it better to my life as, as well.
00:01:00.878 --> 00:01:04.149
So I'm not telling you things that I'm not doing myself.
00:01:04.149 --> 00:01:08.484
I. I'm not, I'm not just sitting here preaching, trying to make myself look smart.
00:01:08.724 --> 00:01:09.623
It's not about that.
00:01:09.623 --> 00:01:10.403
Well read.
00:01:10.433 --> 00:01:11.814
I'm, I don't care about that.
00:01:12.084 --> 00:01:13.974
It's, you know, these things, man, like.
00:01:14.364 --> 00:01:22.405
If I don't get anything else from this book on page 52, if the rest of the whatever pages, 300 pages, I don't get nothing else out of it, so be it.
00:01:22.884 --> 00:01:27.804
I got a lifetime right there and that's what reading can can actually do for you.
00:01:28.704 --> 00:01:32.125
So on page 52, lemme read to you what he wrote.
00:01:32.454 --> 00:01:34.844
He said, my approach back then he was 28.
00:01:35.174 --> 00:01:38.534
My approach back then could be distilled down to one simple idea.
00:01:39.015 --> 00:01:41.713
Don't sit back and wait for someone to tell you what to do.
00:01:42.165 --> 00:01:44.894
Pay attention to people who are successful.
00:01:45.524 --> 00:01:51.433
Ask questions, make a plan, and then do it yourself, bro.
00:01:51.433 --> 00:01:52.094
That's it.
00:01:52.685 --> 00:01:54.875
That is the complete blueprint right there.
00:01:55.234 --> 00:01:57.125
That's the mindset that you gotta have.
00:01:57.590 --> 00:01:59.031
That's how you go from nothing.
00:01:59.536 --> 00:02:05.475
His, his family was poor to running a billion dollar operation by 28 years old.
00:02:05.596 --> 00:02:08.806
And bro, I think this was like back in the late fifties, early sixties.
00:02:09.045 --> 00:02:11.746
So I, whatever that converts to be today.
00:02:12.135 --> 00:02:17.415
See, Bernie Marcus was not worried about what he was being paid for.
00:02:17.746 --> 00:02:19.336
He wasn't sitting around.
00:02:19.711 --> 00:02:21.540
Hoping that someone would notice him.
00:02:21.811 --> 00:02:25.020
He focused on learning every aspect of the business.
00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:26.251
That's exactly what he said.
00:02:26.281 --> 00:02:33.741
He said, I was passionate about understanding every aspect of the business because he had a big picture in mind.
00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:36.040
He didn't need everything to go perfectly.
00:02:36.608 --> 00:02:39.307
He said, I was not afraid to try new things.
00:02:39.427 --> 00:02:45.518
Some things worked, most things didn't, bro, that line right there, some things worked.
00:02:45.848 --> 00:02:46.867
Most things didn't.
00:02:47.376 --> 00:02:48.186
Most people don't.
00:02:48.575 --> 00:02:51.366
They don't want to hear that, and they don't wanna do that.
00:02:51.605 --> 00:02:55.596
To know that you're gonna try something and most of the time it's not gonna work.
00:02:55.656 --> 00:03:02.015
Most people are out, they check out, they want certainty, they want guarantees, they want instant results.
00:03:02.165 --> 00:03:05.586
But Bernie Marcus understood the long game.
00:03:06.216 --> 00:03:08.765
He didn't need it to be a one-to-one ratio.
00:03:09.286 --> 00:03:11.925
If I do this, this is what I get as a result.
00:03:12.466 --> 00:03:19.383
He said, let me try 10 things, and if one thing works and the other nine fail, I still win.
00:03:20.013 --> 00:03:26.372
Bro, that is so powerful to me because so many people quit after one setback.
00:03:26.582 --> 00:03:36.323
Then they play it safe, then they play it comfortable, and they wonder why things aren't working out, if I fail more than you, I'm winning.
00:03:37.045 --> 00:03:47.721
That's how you have to think because if you're still in the game, if you're still growing, if you're still swinging, every mistake becomes another tool in your toolbox.
00:03:48.228 --> 00:03:57.927
Bernie said, each mistake taught me something important, and within three years I was running a division that was doing a billion dollars in business at age 28.
00:03:58.617 --> 00:04:00.568
What the hell were you doing at age 28?
00:04:00.897 --> 00:04:02.068
I wasn't doing that.
00:04:03.643 --> 00:04:05.473
I was not doing that at all.
00:04:05.742 --> 00:04:06.073
Shit.
00:04:06.073 --> 00:04:06.823
What was I doing?
00:04:06.872 --> 00:04:09.092
I was three years into the car business.
00:04:09.513 --> 00:04:10.443
That's what I was doing.
00:04:10.849 --> 00:04:21.910
Just struggling driving a regular cab, Nissan truck, five speed manual transmission with bitch keyed in the side because some chick was mad that.
00:04:21.910 --> 00:04:22.839
I didn't wanna be with her.
00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:25.779
That's what I was doing at 28.
00:04:26.230 --> 00:04:27.939
And here this guy was doing here.
00:04:27.939 --> 00:04:32.536
Bernie Marcus was doing a billion dollar business, but he was doing it.
00:04:33.091 --> 00:04:35.761
Because he wasn't waiting for anyone to tell him what to do.
00:04:36.091 --> 00:04:37.411
He did it himself.
00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.471
And that's the part, bro, I wanna drive home to you today.
00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.230
Stop waiting for permission.
00:04:43.500 --> 00:04:45.990
Stop waiting for someone to teach you.
00:04:46.141 --> 00:04:49.651
Stop waiting for the pay before you put in the effort.
00:04:50.130 --> 00:04:53.370
If you keep waiting, the only thing you're gonna get.
00:04:54.060 --> 00:04:55.170
Is the leftovers.
00:04:55.290 --> 00:04:57.600
And the leftovers are the scraps.
00:04:57.901 --> 00:05:02.940
You're gonna be outpaced by someone with half the talent and twice the urgency.
00:05:03.668 --> 00:05:05.798
Let me say this, nobody's coming to teach you.
00:05:06.278 --> 00:05:11.918
Nobody's gonna walk up to you and say, Hey, here's how you become indispensable.
00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.380
School's out.
00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:14.940
Make your own damn school.
00:05:15.151 --> 00:05:16.800
Create your own damn curriculum.
00:05:17.190 --> 00:05:18.750
Make every job your classroom.
00:05:19.021 --> 00:05:20.341
Make every rep a lesson.
00:05:20.581 --> 00:05:24.416
Make every mistake a tutor, and you better pay attention.
00:05:24.476 --> 00:05:31.449
Pay attention not to the people who think like you, not to the ones who are just as stuck as you are.
00:05:31.689 --> 00:05:32.019
No.
00:05:32.019 --> 00:05:35.350
Pay attention to the people who are successful.
00:05:35.660 --> 00:05:39.170
Watch what they do and don't expect them to slow down to teach you.
00:05:39.529 --> 00:05:45.290
You gotta catch up, ask questions, make a plan, and then do it yourself.
00:05:45.694 --> 00:05:46.625
That's the mantra.
00:05:46.954 --> 00:05:48.665
That's how you become indispensable.
00:05:49.115 --> 00:05:51.035
Because we're all replaceable.
00:05:51.274 --> 00:06:08.084
Every single one of us is, don't think for one minute, you're not in a heartbeat, but when you lighten the load for someone else and you take on more than you ask for, when you start solving problems before someone even notices them, you become the person they can't afford to lose.
00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:10.040
You don't get that from sitting back.
00:06:10.339 --> 00:06:12.110
You don't get that from playing it safe.
00:06:12.740 --> 00:06:21.529
You get that from showing up every damn day with your eyes wide open, looking to grow, willing to fail, hungry to learn.
00:06:22.220 --> 00:06:24.110
This is what I call shelfed experiences.
00:06:24.829 --> 00:06:29.404
You don't always get to use what you learned that day, so you gotta put it on the shelf.
00:06:29.971 --> 00:06:38.581
But one day that experience is going to come back around and when it does, you pull it off the shelf, you're the only one who's ready.
00:06:38.841 --> 00:06:42.346
And you'll be the one with the reps. Nobody else put in.
00:06:43.197 --> 00:06:44.427
Everything matters.
00:06:44.997 --> 00:06:46.226
Everything counts.
00:06:46.882 --> 00:06:48.021
Everything connects.
00:06:48.562 --> 00:06:51.562
Bernie Marcus didn't stumble into a billion dollar business.
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He earned it by trying and failing and trying again, and he kept doing it himself.
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That was the mantra, and maybe that needs to be your mantra too.
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Do it yourself.
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Let that be the reason why you grow.
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Let that be the reason why you break through, not because someone gave you the playbook, because you wrote it.
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Let's get outta here.
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Continue to grow the show.
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Leave a rating and review.
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This is the only way we can get the word out.
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Keep it simple.
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Keep it moving.
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Never settle.
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Stay tough.
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Peace.