Full Ownership = Full Potential

potential, not fun at all, but full ownership equals full potential.

It's difficult to reach our full potential without full ownership.

So this comes from, you know, one of one of my favorite books,

top 10 probably is extreme ownership by Jocco willing to Navy

Seal guy.

And a quote I pulled from there was from Jocco says leaders must own

everything in their world.

There is no one else to blame.

This is tough.

This is tough.

And the reason why it's tough is.

This is where growth is at and it's not fair.

Because a lot of times.

When things happen wrong or there's a setback or something happens

that's not positive.

There's times sometimes we're like man 99% of this ain't my fault.

I've been through it.

95% of this is not my fault.

Not even in my control.

Or 80% or 70% where the growth is at is for you to look in that

thing that owner that thing that happened that you didn't want to happen

and find that 1% that 20% that 50% how much of that can you own and say I

got to take ownership of this.

Here's what I could have done better.

Here's the ways that I could have grown because if you pass blame and don't take

ownership of anything at all that you're like man I could have done this better.

I could have been you're missing the opportunity you're going through the

pain for no reason.

You're missing the opportunity to grow.

Success comes from owning the circumstances even when it's uncomfortable.

You know John Maxwell says everything rises and falls on leadership.

Week leaders blame external factors.

Market, luck, this that when things are off track the only person when you take

ownership when you would just adopt this mindset and this mentality.

The only person to blame is the point of finger at yourself and it's tough way

easier to blame everybody else because there can even be some truth in that.

But there's no growth in that.

And so I learned a long time ago I got some advice from a mentor

and he said pride is expensive.

I want to win.

Do you want to be right or do you want to win?

Do you want to make?

Do you want to be right or do you want to make money?

Because this concept really isn't fair because a lot of times when you got to

take ownership of stuff as a leader it's you could say it's 50% on them or

90% it's other people really you could blame a lot of other people.

But that's not where the growth is at.

So you feel better.

But you're missing the opportunity to grow unless you look internally and say I'm

going to accept some responsibility for this.

Here's how I could grow.

You know my my my kids got three young kids under the 10 years old and under.

My kids all all the time I hear them saying man that ain't fair.

That's not fair.

This ain't fair and I'm always trying to teach them life ain't fair.

You can accept it or you can complain about it but complaining that it ain't fair.

That ain't going to make a situation any better.

We don't get to be the fair givers.

We're not that we're not we don't get we're not that that ain't our job.

We didn't get blessed with that gift to just make sure everybody gets everything

fair in their life that happens.

That's that's that's the world that's God that's whatever the process over time.

It just don't always work out that way.

So when things are off track.

It's tough but let's try to look internally.

And if you can't say the losses are on you, then the winds aren't on you either.

A lot of times people only want to take responsibility for the winds when things

go out to me.

We're so successful when there's losses.

They don't take any responsibility.

Even when it's not your fault, it's still your responsibility and the growth is in

owning it.

So we got it like, man, do we want to be right?

Or do we want to grow?

And so much of life is controlling the controllables, controlling things that you can

control.

And it's hard to control something that you can't own.

I can only control and take control of something that I could take some form of ownership

of.

Like, I'm going to do this better or I could do this better or I could do this.

Otherwise, the control is in somebody else's hands.

Leaders try to not make excuses.

And again, it's not fair.

But leaders don't make excuses.

They find solutions and push forward.

What's the solution to this?

Somebody's going to figure out a way.

Somebody has usually somebody figured out a way to win with the same hand that

you were dealt.

When you take ownership, it builds trust and respect in the team and in relationships.

Remember the, the old E plus R equals O. E plus R equals O that there's an event that

happens.

Then it's the response.

That's what's in our control.

When we talk about controlling what you can control.

And then equals the outcome E plus R equals O.

The E sometimes you can't control the event that happened.

This happened.

All I got the opportunity to do is choose how I'm going to respond.

But how I choose to respond is going to dictate the outcome.

That's why we say CPR CPR CPR.

Choose a positive response.

To bring yourself life.

We're in control of that.

So that's all we can control.

I can't control the event a lot of times.

There's been so many times where there's been an unfair event that happened in business,

in life, but we can control the response.

And if we don't control the response, then we got no shot at determining what the outcome

is going to be.

So there's three things that I think we could do to help master ownership.

There are all A's, three A's first, accept it.

Start practicing it.

Reflect on the situation and accept ownership for it.

The second thing is you adapt.

What needs to change?

When do I need to pivot?

So I saw this quote.

We had by Tyson Fury, the boxer, the traveler, the boxer said, I will become the greatest

because all travelers have to be able to adapt.

That quality, adaptability is essential to that way of life.

You got to learn how to adapt.

And in life, if you're going to win, you got to learn how to adapt.

So many times people can't adapt and evolve that they hurt themselves in the process.

This is like, what that's just the way I am.

Like that just excuses them and the world's just going to open up the door for them

because that's just the way they are.

That's just the way I am.

That's the way we always have done it.

Well, that might make you your pride feel good, but it's going to get you a bunch of losses

in the loss column over the course of five, 10, 15 years.

You got to adapt.

So we got to accept.

We got to adapt.

And then we got to act control the controllables like we talked about and lead the team forward.

Control the things that you can control.

Don't fester on the excuses.

Don't spend a bunch of time on the reasons why we couldn't get it done.

Find the solutions to it.

Control the things that we can control.

Grab ownership of the piece of the pie that you could take ownership of.

And then those are steps that you'll start to take to move yourself, your life,

your deal and everything moving forward.

If you don't like where your where the relationship is at, you don't like where the business is at.

You don't like whatever.

Go in there and grab and say, man, you know what?

To be honest, I could have done this better.

I take ownership of that.

I could have apologized.

I could have gave forgiveness.

I could have let some stuff go.

Could have communicated.

Or I could have done this.

I could have done that.

And now we got the opportunity to grow.

We can't control other people.

I can't control them.

I can only control me.

We can't control all the events that happened.

Good or bad.

But I can only control me.

Us, the response.

How we're going to choose to respond to those things.

We can choose ownership of the response.

You understand what I'm saying?

Something might have happened unfair to you.

That event is like, why can't I take responsibility for that?

My house got struck by lightning.

Or this particular thing happened.

You got injured.

Some people I watch, they play sports,

and they get paralyzed.

What am I supposed to not take a chance, not chase my dream,

not play a sport or whatever it is?

So I own that and blame myself for that.

That ain't what we're saying.

What it is is now I got to choose ownership of the response.

This unfair situation happened.

Boom, but here's how I'm going to respond to it.

I'm taking ownership of that.

Taking ownership on my thoughts, my actions, my words,

my rehabilitation, whatever it is.

Those are the things that separate the winners

from the winters and separates you

from your real potential versus not reaching

your full potential.

RYFP, reach your full potential.

That was on a T-shirt on a winning championship,

winning teams, T-shirts, RYFP, reach your full potential.

If we're going to reach our full potential,

we got to be able to take some ownership,

take full ownership over the things that we can grab.

So hey, that's the message for today.

Find some areas that we could take ownership in,

take ownership and share in this message

with some other people that you think we can impact

and impact our life together.

And as always, we're so grateful for you,

grateful for the time that you spend with us.

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