Social Media Q&A

Count money, man.

I'm not grittin'.

I'm trying to talk to my beast, but...

What's up gang?

Welcome to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

I just wanted to answer a couple questions.

People reached out on social media and they messaged me and I figured, hey, you know

what?

Why don't I share some of these questions?

Two questions with some of the people we're trying to add value to out there.

And so the first one was I have a business partner who is a hard worker and believes in

the vision.

But he neglects developing himself mentally and physically and taking care of his personal

life.

Okay.

So, this is my school of thought.

And so I'm not perfect.

And so some people may have a difference of opinion, but then they should just run their

own show and tell their opinion.

So for today, I'm going to give you my opinion.

I try to impact people first and foremost in their personal life.

For two reasons.

One, my mission is to help people and use the gift of business that God gave me really

as just a way to impact more people.

And I genuinely mean it and feel it.

And I don't just say it because that's what you're supposed to say.

So people ain't mad at you because you make a bunch of money.

But I really feel that way.

And so I want to take care of that person physically, mentally and in their personal life because

I know if they don't their health is going to be off.

How do you stay positive in work hard if your health suffers?

Or how many people do we know that are suffering from depression, anxiety, not happy, but

they do well at work.

And there's a there's an easier way for me to not spend time with people on that and

just let them smoke and drink and do whatever they want and just get the business in here.

And when you can't run no more, we'll get you out of here and we'll tap somebody else

in and we'll let them get out of shape personally, professionally, and let them just drive

themselves into the ground.

And then we'll get it.

We'll get a new one.

But I don't want to argue with you about why you need to work out, read, pray, and all

this other stuff because you don't want to do it.

And that's what I would do if I only cared about money.

But because I care about the people, I challenge their ass because I want to make them better

as a person.

I want to impact their marriage.

I want to impact them as a parent.

I want to impact them personally to where down the road they would say begin with the

end in mind, would you want people to say about you at your funeral?

I would want people to say something that we impacted their life.

Now when you talk about business, the second reason is there's no way over the long term

to separate your business and your personal life.

It's very difficult.

You're going to show symptoms of your personal life in your business life.

And I know for a fact because there's probably some people better, but I feel like I do a really

good job separating my emotions when things don't happen well outside of work, a death

in the family or something and being able to come back and zone in, I feel like I will

give myself a high score in that.

But when me and my wife are not on the same page, if we have a little issue or something

like that, I just know I'm not 100%.

You may not know, but I know I might be at 90% out of 100% as good as I could be, but

I'm not 100%.

So I could imagine if it's just straight, complete mayhem in a person's life, personal

life, real bad, or they're messed up on drugs, order really constantly fighting or cheating

or doing the wrong things or drinking too much or whatever it is and get no sleep and not

say, I can only imagine the way they feel coming into the business and how that affects their

performance.

And so it's going to make the performance eventually your personal life will show symptoms in your

business life.

Not only a matter of time, from a business perspective, you got to get proactive.

So I would not give up on that person.

See for me, it's in my mission statement, so people know where I stand, I preach it constantly.

And I would just keep pouring in and that person needs to know why.

You know, I've seen people over the short term have success, not focusing on those things

but then I watched them fall apart long term.

And I think the saddest thing would be to make all this money and build this successful

business and then your marriage just completely fall apart and your kids and you don't have

a good relationship or your health is bad because you never took care of yourself.

And now you did all this work with nobody to play with, nobody to share it with in your

health is just completely broken down.

And so I think I would just continue to fight with that person, mentoring that person.

You know, I would just keep setting goals with them.

So ask them, you know, do they have any goals that you can help them with physically?

Would they like to lose anyway?

Would they like just help them set goals in some of these areas?

And then you help them create the plan to get better and then try to hold them accountable

to those things.

But just let them know how they're going to affect them.

Try not to force them, try to make things his idea.

He doesn't want to not be good mentally, physically or spiritually or whatever.

But whatever motivates him, if it's just in the money or the business, just show them

down the road.

How this is going to impact them because of that.

And just tell them you only do it because you care because if you didn't care, you just

let them keep doing whatever they're doing because they're getting results and they believe

in the vision of the organization.

The next question was from one of our people, Philip and Cash Money Mentoring.

As we go through life gaining new levels of self-discipline, does it sometimes feel like

old habits, temptations, pitfalls, even from years ago will resurface all at the same

time?

It makes sense to me why it would happen all at the same time because really the glue

is disciplined.

And so old habits, temptations, pitfalls, I feel like we slip in inches but people see

a crash at one point of a person's life but it really started of little small slips in

inches.

And so I think it's about never, ever, ever letting yourself go because yeah, I feel like

it's always, you're always going to have temptations.

They tempted Jesus and how did he respond?

Now again, I know some people that aren't believers or stuff like that.

I know this isn't really, doesn't relate to you or you don't connect with this stuff.

But the way that I know Jesus came back with the temptation of Satan was he always responded

with the word of God.

So I think I can connect me being able to not give in the temptation to my constant reflection

and work on myself in the word of God because that's how I beat the temptations.

That's what's coming out of my mind and out of my mouth when I'm tempted.

Even I got jokes and some people joke and laugh with some friends of mine that have adopted

this.

They said, that's the devil.

That's the devil over there.

Looks good, but that's the devil.

You got to run over there.

That's the temptation.

You're probably always going to have a little bit of wanting to eat some ice cream, a little

bit of wanting to eat the cake, a little bit of wanting to, I don't know if that ever

goes away.

You just get real discipline in your diet.

So those old habits that feel good is always going to be creeping around us.

So that's why I don't, you know, the old terminology from your coach in sports that

says you're either getting better or you're getting worse.

You can never stay the same.

So you hear people say all the time, we're either getting better or we're getting worse,

but you can't stay the same.

Well, I think that's the truth in your marriage.

I think it's the truth in your health.

I think it's the truth in your business, it's the truth in your life.

You're either getting better or you're getting worse.

If you start to fall off a little bit, you're allowing yourself to get worse, but you're

human.

So if you're on a diet and you ate some ice cream, understand ice cream is not the same

as heroin.

So what do I mean by that?

For some of you that don't pick up what I'm putting down, the temptation, when I say,

yeah, you can break sometimes.

Sometimes I break when I should be eating clean and I eat a whole quart of handles ice

cream.

Shouldn't have did it was not cheat day broke down had one scoop ate the whole damn thing.

But the next day I'm right back on it.

That's different than me having a temptation of I was a drug addict and now I want to do

heroin again.

That is a different level of you cannot have any of that at all.

Or you're in an argument with your spouse and you have a temptation to have a, what did

I even call them, a fair.

It don't even cross my freaking mind.

I can't even remember what they call them and a fair.

You want to cheat.

That is one where it's not like the same as eating ice cream.

That temptation if you give in to that one, you could be done for it.

And so understand these temptations.

The small ones lead into the big ones.

Now the small ones if you fall off, you just jump right back on to get back to where you

were.

But I think the key is, Phillip, you're always going to have these temptations.

You've got to stay ready so you don't got to get ready because if you got to get ready,

sometimes it's too late, brother.

So if you let your guard down, it's the constant paranoia of I can't slip.

I got to be on it.

Got to be on it.

Got to be on it.

Cross myself enough.

I'm not good enough that if I stop doing mentally, physically, spiritually, keeping myself

in check and working on it, I don't even want to know what that person would do because

I remember somebody that didn't focus on that about 20 years ago.

And I don't know how that person is is still here.

So I don't ever want to go there again.

So that healthy paranoia, that's why I got to go back to the word of God.

Proverbs, first chapter says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

So it says basically, it's hard to have wisdom if you don't have that respect for the Lord.

So for me, it's like, man, the respect that I have there says, I don't deserve all this.

I'm saying mine, this is rented.

Someone's choosing to allow me to live this life as long as I can walk the way I need

to walk and impact other people in a minute that I stop impacting other people and thinking

this is me.

And I'm the man.

And I start slipping on discipline.

And I got it from here, I feel like that, that just from what I see, that's, that's the

beginning of the end for people.

And so those that humble themselves will be exalted, those that exalt themselves will

be humbled.

And I don't want to be humbled anymore.

I just rather stay down there, humble.

So we can just keep getting exalted.

And so the humility aspect says, I know I'm vulnerable.

I can't slip.

I got to stay on it.

And so do you.

Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Grindcast.

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