Is Your Plan a Prison Sentence?

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And we're going to talk about is your plan.

The path that you're on is,

is it leading you to where you need to be

or is it a prison sentence?

And so, how to know when to pivot

or change directions a little bit in your life?

And I think it could be difficult to walk away

from something that you've invested time into.

And so, I think that there's some things

that I've seen people do successfully.

And some more successful than others at it, obviously.

But people that have transitioned into our business,

that's given me a lot of insight towards some of this stuff.

And so, you know, when you think about when to pivot,

you know, it's this psychological trap sometimes

where people continue to invest time into things

or money into things or effort into something,

not because it's the best choice, you know,

for them five, ten, fifteen years from today,

but because they've already invested so much into it already.

So, you know, I think people fear that wasted effort,

that man, I've already put in so much time into this,

I've already put so much money into this

that it becomes difficult for them to pivot

and to do something different or to change

into something different, because they're thinking about what they're losing,

you know, that they've put into something

versus what they're probably could have an opportunity of gaining.

And so, you know, one of those things that comes to mind

is, you know, one of the folks in our business that's killing it,

young man, been with us a couple of years,

and he was accepted into medical school,

and he chose to walk away, you know, from medical school.

You know, and you can imagine the pressure that that brings,

you know, how excited family members probably were about,

you know, him dropping out of medical school to go do, you know,

life insurance and to do virtual sales.

And so, you know, your past investment doesn't always equal

your future obligation.

And don't forget that you don't waste the experience,

that you've gotten all this experience up to that point

from whatever it was that you're doing.

It's not necessarily a waste.

And so, you know, when you look at how do I pursue a new opportunity,

you got to look first is, am I currently aligned with the values

that I have in the lifestyle that I want to live?

Does the future of, that I'm taking, the path that I'm,

that I'm walking down right now, five years, ten years out?

Does it align with the values in the lifestyle that I want to live?

And does the timeline fit for what my goals are, you know, in life, meaning,

you know, is it going to take me ten years, you know, for example,

I had somebody tell me, hey, why didn't you, you know, go into, you know,

doing what you thought you may do in coaching?

And the guy was explaining, hey, when I researched and looked at coaching,

even if I made it to the highest levels, what I found is,

most of these guys moved five or six different times,

and they didn't really start making big money for ten or fifteen years.

And my personal timeline goals that I had for myself was I wanted to make money,

big money in the, in the next two years.

I didn't want to wait twelve years or ten years or fifteen years.

And so it doesn't always have to be money, but just make sure that the timeline fit.

It matches your personal goals based off what your current trajectory is right now.

And so then, then you got to look at how do I leverage my natural strengths and interests,

you know, if I'm looking at pivoting, what am I, what am I good at?

What are the things that I'm naturally good at that I get complimented on?

You know, if you're like, man, what are my strengths?

What are people compliment you on naturally?

What are your family members and friends say?

You know, you're good at this.

There's probably some of your strengths right there,

and then what are you interested in?

And so you leverage those two things, and then you assess, you know,

you really take thought and take your time giving it thought,

and not just being emotional.

You know, sometimes people make emotional reactions in pivot out of not being in a healthy mindset.

You know, not necessarily thinking it through properly with wisdom,

but thinking it through with your emotions because you're upset at the time.

Or, you know, you make long-term decisions based off of something that's really only a short-term issue

or challenge right now.

So make sure that you take time to assess it seriously and methodically and professionally and not impulsively.

And, you know, I think the thing to warn against and to be careful about is you can't just jump

because something feels exciting.

We got to use logic and not just your emotion.

And then you can compare long-term outcomes of like, all right,

if I stay on this track, what does it look like for me three years from today, five years from today,

10 years from today, 15 years from today?

What does that look like for me?

And if I go this other route, what is the possible long-term outcome if I run that out five years, 10 years?

And then, you know, one of my secret things that's really not a secret,

it's not super complicated, is consulting with mentors.

It's trying not to make major decisions alone, you know, trying to get,

and it doesn't mean you have to take everybody's advice,

but you could try to digest a person or two's advice that can mentor you in the right direction.

Just make sure that you're asking advice from someone that you would be willing to trade places with,

you know, in that area of their life or, you know, in their life in general,

that you're not, you know, you could start asking advice from people that aren't qualified to get advice,

and sometimes people you go, you go to people for advice that you're comfortable with,

that you like or that like you, and sometimes they might not be qualified to give you great advice.

And so just be careful who you're choosing for this guidance and mentorship,

but definitely I think it would be helpful to seek out mentorship and guidance

and people that may match up with the decision that you need to be making.

And you know, when it comes down to that decision, you know, how do you decide

on what decision to make without having, you know, there is no perfect, you know, advice.

You know, there's no perfect information that says, yeah, this is 100% for sure what you want to do,

because when you pivot, there's always a little bit of a risk.

And so you could look at the worst case if you stay and look at the worst case if you pivot.

You know, what's the worst case look like for you if you stay?

What's the worst case look like for you if you pivot?

What's the best case look like for you if you stay?

What's the best case look like for you if you pivot?

and maybe having a list of pros and cons.

You know, that's always a good way to make decisions.

You know, you could put a piece of paper

and put pros and cons with a little T chart

and put all the positives on one side,

all the possible cons on the other side.

And just looking at it may help you make these decisions.

Which, think about which worst case could I live with?

What best case excites me the most?

Which do you think you would regret the most in five years?

Because sometimes these detours could be the best opportunity.

Conviction, you know, separates the people that are thinking

about doing stuff and the people that actually go out there

and do it.

It's like just being committed and convicted.

Sometimes when you're staying put in something

just because other people tell you

that's what you're supposed to do,

that's basically just standing in your comfort zone

and you guys that listen, you know, often,

you know, being in your comfort zone,

comfort zone, typically is not where growth is at, right?

So the growth is outside of your comfort zone.

Changing the plan, you know,

changing a little bit of the plan isn't failure.

Sometimes I could lead you to growth.

But you could go, one thing's for sure

is once you make that pivot,

you gotta go all in.

And you can learn all these other things

that you had to learn from before

and take those things with you

and it carried it over to the next opportunity.

But 100%, you gotta go all in

because if you go half effort, you get half results.

Sometimes I think when I watch people try to make a pivot,

why I've watched a lot of them not become successful

is because they never really commit to the pivot.

Is that they wanna stick their toe in.

They wanna stick one foot in

and keep the other foot out.

And you're never gonna really see

what something can give you

until you give all of yourself, which takes full commitment.

I think people are looking at what do I get

from half commitment and they're expecting full results

and great results and then once they get great results

in their mind, they would give full commitment

but it doesn't work that way.

You don't get to give half commitment

and then you get all these great results

and then you say, all right, now I'm gonna go fully committed

to this.

Typically it don't work that way.

Typically you gotta get fully committed first

and then the results are end up following.

But just remember, change in your path

doesn't mean that you wasted all your previous effort before.

Like even in the example of the young man

that went to medical school,

you still got knowledge to have educated conversations

with people from what you've learned.

You still learn discipline.

I'm sure being a full-time student

and all the studying that it takes to go to medical school,

that discipline doesn't just leave you overnight

if you choose to apply it to something else.

The study habits that you learned

to pass a difficult exam, all right,

now you study your presentation

or you study something else.

You know, the exact same.

The pursuit of greatness extra going above and beyond

challenging yourself with something difficult.

All that stuff applies just cause it didn't finish out

in the exact degree that this person was heading in.

It doesn't mean that it wouldn't apply

to other areas of their life.

Changing their path doesn't always mean

that you wasted all the previous effort.

All those lessons that you learn,

fuel the success to the new one.

Specifically when I think about the cool thing

about our business and the story of some of the people

that are in the back of my mind,

is if you go out and you change somebody's life

and you get in the medical field

or whatever like this person,

of course we need good medical professionals, right?

On a yearly basis, you know, us personally

and our loved ones are being helped by people

that are medical professionals

and it takes a whole team, you know,

from the person checking you in to the, you know,

people that drive the ambulance to the doctors,

you know, it's like it's a whole team

and it's an industry that changes

and impacts people's lives for sure.

And so I think the transition in mindset would be,

you know, man, I like the aspect

that maybe impacting some changes in somebody's life.

It's where if you come into a business like we're in,

I think the beautiful thing is you get to choose

some of the people's lives that you get to impact

on a major scale and others are people that you meet

just like if you were at the hospital.

So, you know, if we go to the hospital,

you get random people pulling up

and you get to help those people.

And in our business, we're protecting people

with life insurance benefits

and we meet random people, you know, people that we don't know

and you have an opportunity to protect these people's lives,

you know, their future for the rest of their life

that if something were to happen to them,

you know, now their family's gonna be paid,

that they don't have to pay for their mortgage

or they have an income coming into the home to offset,

you know, what they just lost,

especially if you have children.

So, you're impacting people's lives in a different direction,

but I think my favorite thing has always been

is now we can impact somebody's life that

if I meet somebody at a restaurant,

you know, I met somebody years ago at a,

a burglatory and those of you that don't know

burglatory, it's like a chain burger restaurant

and was super talented, you know,

nice, personable, good work ethic,

spoke, you know, spoke well, but just,

had some things challenges happen in life and maybe couldn't, you know, find the college

you wanted to go to or even if you go to college, those of you that are graduates, you know

that don't mean you just walk out and you're a millionaire, right?

And so, introduce them to the opportunity.

The opportunity now has provided him the opportunity where he's making multiple six figures.

And it's not that it happens that everybody like that, but one of my favorite things is

when you get to look at the people in the world that the world would dismiss or look as just

average, another average person.

And within six weeks you can change that person's life.

They go out there and get the classes done, pass the test, come in, get some development

and they're off to the races and you can meet somebody and just drastically change that

person's life and impact that person's life for the rest of their life by blessing them

with an opportunity and coaching them through an opportunity.

And so I think to each his or her own, right, that we need everybody can't think the

same.

Everybody can't do the same thing.

That's what makes the world a beautiful place is that we all have different gifts and

strengths and talents and we make it all work to build the United States of America, to

build the world, to build your family.

Not everybody needs to do the exact same thing, but what I will tell you is the folks that

are looking at, man, do I need to make a change?

I think if you can review some of the things, the notes that you may have from this, it

will help you on making that decision and to close out, I would just say just remember,

once you commit, to me the longer you wait, the more expensive it is, the older you get,

the more expensive that it is.

But when you commit, you got to run like heck, you can't look back.

It's almost like, you know, we tell people you can't steal second base with your foot

on first base.

And so once you commit to stealing second base and baseball, you got to run like you got

shot out of a cannon, or you're going to get thrown out.

You can't be looking back where you can't be where you can't slow down.

If you slow down just a step or two, you can get thrown out.

You got to go all in.

And so those of you that are looking to pivot, go ahead and make an educated decision and

when you make a pivot into whatever direction that you want to move in, just try to say

I'm going to go all in.

I'm going to go for second base.

I'm going to run like heck.

I'm not going to look backwards.

I'm going to give it everything that I got.

I think that helps you have a better opportunity of being successful.

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