Get In The Game

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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You know, I wish I remember what video game it was.

I remember as a kid.

I don't know what it was.

Was it Saga or Nintendo?

I don't, I forget what game it was, but it was, say, get in the game.

Get in the game.

And so we got to talk about getting in the game.

You know, most people stay stuck in life because they're avoiding risk.

And understand that those things go hand in hand, that if you want to have major success,

you're going to have to take some risk.

You have to take some major risk.

And if you want minor success, then you don't really take any risk at all.

And I think a lot of people stay stuck because they avoid the risk, but they want the greatness

that comes with the people that take the risk.

And my perspective on this, I'm no special person, but in my experience at 42 and my perspective

is that the best two ways to have risk is to me bet on yourself.

And if you wouldn't bet on yourself, then why would you bet on other people over betting

on yourself?

I think betting on yourself.

And then also mitigating risk, not doing dumb things and acting a fool or being stupid.

So I think you can mitigate the risk by taking time to think about the decision, asking

for some advice and wisdom, praying about it, being diligent in it.

But at some point, if you want to go to the next level, there's going to be a little bit

of risk.

And people are always waiting for the right time.

There usually isn't a perfect time.

Real growth, clarity, success, all that stuff only comes through action.

You got to take action.

That's why you'll hear us say that sometimes you got to act yourself into feeling and not

feel yourself into acting.

And today's one of those examples.

And I'm sure you could hear it.

I got to sniffles.

You know, a little bit.

I was on a late flight home.

There was a, we took a later flight and we had to get off the plane, get back on the

plane.

And I didn't get home until two o'clock in the morning.

I probably got four hours of sleep.

I've been trying to get eight and woke up on top of it with the sniffles.

And I didn't really feel like getting into sauna, getting a quick workout in, feel like

all these meetings that I had scheduled to go through, feel like.

But man, I'm glad that I did.

I'm glad I took that cold shower, shaved, you know, got dressed, started adding value to

people's life.

And better than I would have felt probably not doing those things.

So sometimes you got to act yourself into feeling.

And ask yourself, do you want to get in the game or do you want to sit in the bleachers?

And understand that when you get in the game, you got to hear from the people in the bleachers.

The loudest people are typically people in the bleachers, not the people in the game.

Because when you're watching a basketball game or football game, you might have a little

bit of John going on, but we don't got time to be running up and down the court yelling

and talking a bunch of crap to everybody in the stadium or everybody on different teams

or like you better stay focused.

But the people in the stands, those are the ones that are talking the most.

And so you can't let the people in the stands talk you out of getting in the game.

And if you're going to be in the game and you're going to be great at the game, you've

got to be able to handle the people in the bleachers.

But you got to be able to ask yourself, do I want to be the person in the bleachers

that I want to be the person in the game?

Nobody succeeds sitting comfortably on the sidelines.

Like I go to games sometimes, but I understand what I'm there for.

That's entertainment purposes.

I'm not going to come out of there and win a world championship because I was in the bleachers.

I don't mean talking about what I think they could have did in the game.

That ain't going to get me any commercials.

That ain't going to get me any marketing deals, any large contracts.

That's just straight entertainment looking at people that put in the work.

And I think the reason why a lot of people stay in the bleachers is they act.

You don't act because it's a fear of maybe what you might lose.

But more often, it's the fear of judgment.

It's the fear of what people are going to say in the stands when you get in the game.

And I think you don't need more confidence to get in the game.

You just got to act yourself in the feeling and go get in the game.

And if you want more confidence, it's simple.

You just got to do more reps, whatever it is.

If you're like, man, I wish I had more confidence in this.

You just got to practice it more.

Take 100 more reps.

I had to take a thousand reps at it.

Break it down into how many minutes a day do I got to work at this thing?

I don't know.

I saw a thing the other day said seven minutes a day or ten minutes a day.

If you worked on something for a year or two like that, you'd be better than 90% of the

people.

Again, what they're saying is get in the game a little bit.

Do something.

And so if you want to get confident, just, could you at least give it ten minutes a day,

every single day, or do you want to give an hour every other day to practicing your craft,

whatever it is.

And eventually, after you get more reps, you'll have the confidence.

Clarity.

If you want this clarity, clarity is going to come from action and then moving.

Not overthinking things all the time.

Like I remember coming up in the business and it was like, man, the person that was overly

analytical, I'm like, well, that might be the person that's going to struggle because

they're going to overthink every move to this game instead of just getting into game,

getting the experience and getting to work, getting to action.

And the reason why most people never even start is because they're waiting on feeling

ready.

Waiting on the moment when you feel ready is going to keep you waiting for a long time

because you're probably never going to really feel ready.

The cost of that to you, like the cost of staying comfortable, is usually greater than

the cost of failure itself.

Because if you do it right and you learn from it, failure typically is the fastest way

to get success as long as it's calculated and you're not being stupid and just not doing

the right things, but typically you've got to fail a little bit in order to have success.

You don't go from a great free throw shooter by making 10 out of 10 free throws.

You do it by failing over and over and over again until you get good at it.

Same with soccer, baseball, basketball, wrestling.

The more you fail and look at it and critique it and learn from it, the closer you get to

success.

So the cost of staying comfortable is greater than the cost of failure.

And the fear that you feel starts to shrink in size, the moment that you start to take

the next step.

Take the next step.

Take the first step.

Take the next step.

And that's how you build momentum.

momentum is built by doing.

Take the next step.

Take the next step.

Take the next step.

Not thinking.

You don't build momentum by thinking.

Now, you got to do some thinking, but the momentum is going to be built by taking action,

getting to work.

And you're probably going to learn more from one real attempt or a couple real attempts

than 100 plans that you make and don't take any action.

That's why they say talk is cheap.

I was telling somebody the other day that's having some success and people are talking

bad about them and saying something.

I'm like, man, listen, talk is cheap.

I could say right now, oh man, I could beat Mike Tyson.

I know Mike's getting old, but that ain't just because I say anybody can say it.

We all can say, hey, man, I can beat Mike Tyson.

That's free.

Don't take no work, but the action is expensive.

Now how many people are actually going to do it and could actually do it?

That's expensive.

That's when the reality kicks in.

So you can't let what somebody got to say, it's free.

It's cheap.

Determine from being the one that's doing it because it's easier to go from failure to

success than excuses to success.

When I hear people take ownership, man, yeah, I messed up, but here's how I learned from

it.

I'm like, all right, that person is getting closer to greatness.

But when I hear somebody failing to make an excuses all the time, it's the weather.

It's the coach.

It's the leads.

It's the.

My leader.

It's the this.

It's the that.

I'm like, man, that's not a person that I would bet on long term to have success because

if you want to have success, you got to lose excuses.

And if you want to have excuses, you got to lose success.

Which one are you?

And what's good for you won't always feel good or taste good.

You know, my kids are always like, you know, I order a vegetable juice or whatever it is.

You know, like, does that taste good, dad?

Is that good?

And I'm like, not really.

You know, why do you have it?

Well because it was good for you won't always taste good.

And sometimes with taste good, they're not always really good for you.

And so same thing in life.

So think about how can we ask better questions of not, does this taste good but is this

good for my body?

Is this good for me?

Not does this feel good but is this good to progress my life?

Not is this what I want to do or feel like doing but is this going to get me closer to

where I want to go?

Like, what if I couldn't fail at this question?

Or what if I did fail at this but it still moved me forward a little bit closer to my

goals?

Just asking and looking at questions better to move yourself in the right direction.

But understand either way, it was, it's in the game, right?

What was that EA sports?

I think it's coming back.

It's in the game.

Or what if like it's, you got to get in the game because, you know, people want to be

significant, they want to do something significant.

They want to have respect and respect and significance are earned on difficult ground, not

in comfort, not in comfort zones, not in areas of not stretching, pushing yourself,

getting sore a little bit.

All the growth is in feeling sore, feeling stretched, sweating, pushing, you know, like all

that stuff.

That's where everything that you want is on the other side of that.

It's on difficult ground, not going to be on the easy ground.

And so if you keep, if you look at people that are always looking for the easy road and

this is simple, it's like, all right, to have the easy life, you do the hard things,

to have the hard life, you do the easier things.

And that's pretty much the way it goes.

And so what is it out there you got to go ahead and do, get yourself to do, but this

week we got to get in the game.

All right, let's get, let's get in the game, let's stay in the game, keep moving forward.

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