Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show - Twenty Lessons Over My Forty Five Years - 121
Episode Date: October 21, 2019Do you want to know the best lessons I’ve learned in my 45 years of life? Let me tell you, I’ve learned a lot of shit! Bad stuff, good stuff, and everything in between. I want to share with you, t...he most important lessons I’ve learned that have helped me dominate life and excel my business. What are some of the best lessons that you’ve learned? “Say what you mean and mean what you say.” “You have to know your life’s vision.” “Drive change, exceed expectations, and be relentlessly disciplined.” - Bedros Keuilian Here’s what you’ll discover: 04:43 - Why you should never seek validation from anyone 08:07 - Always keep your word 13:31 - No one owes you anything 16:13 - When I had to fuck a mother fucker up 22:42 - How you can demand respect 29:41 - Leadership is always the solution Follow me on Instagram: @bedroskeuilian Buy Man Up and get Bedros’s High Performance Leadership Course for FREE: https://manup.com/ Make sure to watch my Empire episode with my mentor Jim Franco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5NOa3h6_Bc Make sure to review us on iTunes: http://bit.ly/theempireshow Youtube: https://youtu.be/sv3p4c18mME
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At mile number seven, I started to negotiate with my inner bitch.
Never negotiate with your inner bitch.
If you negotiate with your inner bitch and choose easy over difficult,
you will end up literally killing the beast and letting the bitch run your life.
You got to be a beast at everything.
20 lessons I've learned over 45 years.
Hey friends, welcome to the Empire Show.
My name is Bedros Kulian, and we're going to tear it up right now.
Listen, man, I got 45 years under my belt.
And in that time, I've done a lot of shit.
Good shit, bad shit, gotten into trouble, made a lot of money,
continue to make a lot of money, help a lot of people,
gotten into trouble again, continue to make more money.
But I want to talk to you about something,
and that is a post that I recently put up on Facebook.
And that post was about the 20 life and business lessons
I've learned over my 45 years.
And I really thought about this because I get a lot of DMs from people watching
and following me on social media.
And I appreciate you all doing that.
But, you know, when people are like, hey, man, I got a question about this.
How do I handle this part of my life or that part of my relationship or that part of my business?
I'm like, man, you know, let me keep track of that.
So anyway, I came up with 20 things.
I think you're going to like it.
In fact, I know you are because, well, this post was blowing up.
So I've got the post in front of me here and I'm going to go down the list of 20 lessons
that I've discovered over my 45 years.
So lesson number one is this or thing number one is this.
take your girls out on a date. What I mean by that is if you have a little girl, have a weekly
or at least every other week date night with your little baby girl. Like I started taking Chloe on a
date around five years old, man. She's 12 years old now. But at five years old, I started taking her
out on weekly dates, and then sometimes it was every other week, and then back to weekly dates again.
And guess what? It really helped out in setting her expectations for the future.
and who she's going to choose as a boyfriend and as a husband.
And when I say, take your girls out, I mean, take your wife out too.
Everybody says they want a great relationship, but no one takes the time to add date night to their calendar.
So if you've got a spouse, you might want to consider adding a date night, a consistent day and time,
and just add it for the next 12 months.
Have it be a reoccurring thing on your calendar.
And if you could do that, you're going to have a very happy wife.
And if you're a female entrepreneur, you might end up having a very happy husband.
Here's what I'm going to share this with you, Flores.
Look, as entrepreneurs, we kind of get all worked up and we get excited about our business
because, look, man, we are like changing the world, right?
And in that process, your business quickly becomes the other woman.
And soon your spouse might start feeling a little neglected.
Maybe your kids start feeling a little neglected.
But if you work them into your calendar first and then build your work calendar around that, the date nights, the times with your son, your daughter, your whatever, then you're going to rock.
So that's thing number one.
Thing number two is raise your son to become a modern day night.
I believe there's not enough men out there who are raising their sons to become modern day nights.
And when I say there's not enough men, well, guess what?
But there's not enough women raising their men, their young men, to become modern-day nights.
And I think it's up to us as parents to raise young men to become protectors, to become gentlemen,
to open doors, to make eye contact and say hello, to shake hands, to protect those who can't
protect themselves, to leave others better than they found them, to keep their word, to lead
when called upon, to follow when needed.
Like, that's what a modern day night is.
I had to learn that because I was not taught that as a young man,
so I had to learn that.
And I believe as a byproduct of not being taught
how to be a modern day night,
I got into a lot of trouble in my teens and early 20s,
like helicopter police chase and home invasion robberies,
and those weren't fun.
Thankfully, thankfully,
when I got in that police helicopter chase, they were very forgiving.
Otherwise, the entire course of my life could have been different, right?
So thing number three is to never seek approval or validation from anyone.
Simple as that.
Never seek approval or validation from anyone.
And here's why.
It just looks bad.
Whether you're a guy or gal, it doesn't matter.
Don't be approval seeking, validation seeking.
there's no real value in that.
It just makes you look weak.
If you're a guy, it makes you look like a little bitch.
If you're trying to get someone's attention or impress them,
be you and be the best version of you,
have a kick-ass business, and you will get their attention.
Or be a great athlete.
Guess what?
The best in every category, get attention.
And here's what I've noticed.
20 years ago, in my 20s,
when I was approval-seeking,
validation seeking, and I would try to get someone's attention.
Whenever I got it, I realized it's just shallow.
There's nothing there.
Most of the people you're trying to get attention from,
who you think are the big gurus, the big thought leaders,
you think they got it all figured out?
They don't.
I ain't got shit figured out.
I'm just 45 years old, so if you're in your 20s,
I got two decades on you.
If you're in your 30s, I got a decade on you.
But guess what?
Recently, I had my mentor of 20 years here at the HQ,
And in fact, we did an Empire show episode, and you ought to look for that and watch that.
His name is Jim Franco.
It's the Jim Franco episode.
The dude is 76 years old.
He's got 30-some-odd years on me.
Like, that man has wisdom.
He's got experience.
Do you think he gives a fuck about other people's approval and validation?
He doesn't.
He was literally on this show saying,
B, I've got big brass balls, and I make decisions based on what I feel is right in my gut.
I'm like, holy shit.
I now have that confidence.
But I didn't in my 20s.
And so if you're watching or listening to this,
and you're in your 20s and 30s, I'm telling you right now, man,
be in approval seeking, validation seeking,
trying to get the attention of people by way of groveling to them.
That's not the way to do it.
If you're an athlete, be the best athlete you are or you can be,
and you will get their attention.
If you're an entrepreneur, be the best entrepreneur you can be,
and you will get their attention.
Whatever you are, be the best in class.
The best person who does Rubik's cubes, see my son, he does Rubik's cubes, right?
They're called SpeedCubers.
You know, by the way, I don't know if you know this.
My son can solve a Rubik's cube.
Or it's actually a speed cube, but it looks like a Rubik's cube.
It's like smooth like butter.
It's got magnets, springs, they oil it.
It's all this fucking thing.
It's like an $80 cube.
When I was a kid, those things were like three bucks, right?
But it's an $80 cube, and he can solve that in under a minute.
Why do I share this with you?
because the guy who can solve it in like seven and a half seconds,
he's known as the number one guy in the cubing industry.
And if my son can beat his record and go to six seconds in solving a Rubik's cube,
guess what?
He'll be known.
So I'm like, son, just get better at what you want to get better at.
Don't try and get that guy's attention or approval or validation.
They will seek you out when you become the best.
thing number three say what you mean and mean what you say being a passive aggressive little baby
again doesn't look good on anyone just say what you mean and mean what you're going to say
that's number four thing number five is this always keep your word when you make a promise
keep a promise it's a pretty simple thing but there used to be a time that people kept their
word now there's words like oh this person's a flake i got ghosted right that fucking word shouldn't even
exist. Ghosted. Ghost might exist. Casper the friendly ghost, right? Ghost busters, but you got ghosted,
right? Meaning someone made plans with you, said they're going to do something at the last
minute. They didn't return your text message or your call, and they just didn't show up.
They probably chose the better option. Fuck that. If you made a promise to someone,
show up, whether it's I'm going to help you move from your apartment to a house, I'm going to help you
fucking unpack something. I'm going to help you figure something out. I'm going to go out
with you. We're going to hang out. Even if you get a better option, keep your word. Simple concept.
Not a lot of people doing it. Number six, be who you are in private as you say who you
are in public. How often do you meet someone in public and they're charismatic,
enthusiastic, well-spoken, put together, you later find out in private, they're a shit show, right?
And that's important because you got to be the same person in private that you say you are in public.
Otherwise, you're a hypocrite.
You're a liar.
And if you can't do that, how do you expect people to look up to you?
Because, I mean, if you're watching or listening to the show, then you're probably someone who wants to make a lot of impact, income, and influence, right?
What you're really saying, whether you're going to be an entrepreneur or you're going to be the CEO, CFO of a company, a vice president, like, you want to be a leader. You want to be a high achiever. Well, guess what? Leaders, they make a promise and they keep a promise, number one. Number two, they are in private who they say they are in public. Like, what you see is what you get. Shouldn't be that difficult. Number seven, be clear on your life's vision, mission, and values. Man, I got to tell you.
If you know what your life's vision should be, like if you sat and said, all right, I want
this to be my life.
Like in my case, I want to have 2,500 Fit Body Boot Camp locations worldwide.
Then I'm going to write four more books.
I've already written Man Up.
I'm going to write four more books over the span of my lifetime.
I've got the ideas for the books.
It might end up growing into five or six books, right?
And I know I want to contribute heavily to Shrineer Children's Hospital, Toys for Tots,
and Compassion International.
Those are the three charities that I donate money to.
And I want to be the number one donator to Shriners Children's Hospital.
Right now, Justin Timberlake is the number one donator.
My goal is to be the number one donator to Shriners Children's Hospital.
So I have to make enough money through my books, through my coaching, through my franchise,
through my supplement company, my software company, all these things have to make me enough money
so that I could be the number one donor at Shriners.
I could keep buying a quarter million dollars of toys every Christmas for Toys for Towers for
and I could keep adopting more kids through Compassion International.
As of recording this, I've got 97 kids adopted, my family and I through Compassion International.
And to me, that's not enough.
I want 1,000.
I want 1,000.
I want 10,000 kids adopted, where we're helping them through their schooling, through getting
them clean food and water, right?
And so you really have to have a life's vision, like that's my vision, to make so much money
that me and my family live in exceptional.
magical life while donating massively to Shreda's Children's Hospital, Toys for Tots,
and Compassion International.
So if I know that's my life's vision, then what is my mission every day?
Well, it's probably to keep growing all of my companies, to surround myself with a great team
that can help me move the needle, and that is also on the same vision and mission plan as I am,
Meaning, they want to make a lot of money, they want to have high standards of living,
quality living and experience, and they want to donate to causes to speak to them.
That's my mission.
Every day to keep selling, keep marketing, keep growing, making more money, and then donating.
So then it goes to my values.
What are my core values?
Simple.
Drive change, exceed expectations, and be relentlessly disciplined.
That's it.
And if I could keep doing that, driving the value.
change in my industry, exceeding expectations of my clients, customers, business partners,
and friends, and be relentlessly disciplined to stay on track of my mission and vision,
no one can tear me away. So think about this. If you don't have your own personal life's,
vision, mission, and values, you're really drifting around life like a rudderless ship. And that's
kind of dangerous. It's kind of dangerous. Because if you don't have a mission, someone's going to give you
a mission, which means you're going to become someone's employee. You're going to become
someone's cog in a wheel. So have a vision, have a mission, have core values that actually
matter, right? Where do we leave off? That was number seven. Number eight, no one owes you
anything. Pay your dues and earn it. Simple message. Let's drive that home one more time. No one
owes you anything. Pay your dues and earn it. But Pedro, I started my Instagram account. It's
Spend six months, I only have 800 followers.
I paid my dues.
No, you didn't.
No, you didn't.
A decade of grinding, of being in the trenches, of taking shrapnel, of having your body
covered with entrepreneurial scars, of lessons, of failure, of poor relationships
with business partners, borrowing money and being so upside down financially, sleeping on
a couch, sleeping in the back of a Toyota pickup like I did, sleeping wherever you can sleep
because there ain't no fucking bet around that is paying your dues.
Have you paid your dues for a decade?
I doubt it.
You deserve to have an exceptional life?
I doubt it.
So no one knows you anything, man.
The sooner you accept that, the quicker you'll realize you're going to do the work,
you're going to pay your dues, and you're going to earn it.
Number nine, be good at solving problems, making decisions, and communicating your thoughts.
Like if you want to be a great entrepreneur, if you want to be a great leader, if you want to be someone who is a high achiever in life, that's what you have to do.
You have to be good at solving problems.
The best businesses I know end up solving the most sophisticated problems.
Think about that.
All a business is is a solution to a problem.
And the more complicated problem you can solve, the more money you will make.
Doesn't that make sense?
And if you can communicate your message, the more leads.
and clients and customers you'll attract.
And if you can make faster decisions and better decisions,
you will move faster than your competitors.
And so it just makes sense, right?
It makes sense to solve problems, communicate clearly,
and be decisive.
Number 10, come with a giving hand and with gratitude and humility.
That's it.
Come as a servant leader.
Come with a giving hand and with gratitude and humility.
Not enough of that going around these days.
Number 11.
Be kind, be gentle, be courteous,
but always have a plan to fuck a motherfucker up.
And here's what I mean by that.
Look, man, I'm going to be gentle.
I'm going to be kind.
I'm going to come as a servant leader.
I want to serve and come to you with no expectations.
But man, if you're a threat to me, my family,
to the people that I love, I ain't dumb.
I gotta fuck you up.
I'll give you a great example.
A few years ago, my family and I,
we were flying back from Maui.
The plane was about one hour into the flight.
We're over the mighty Pacific Ocean,
35,000 feet up in the year.
Me, the wife, and the two kids, right?
It was one of those big jumble planes
where it's got like the massive first class.
And, you know, we're kind of in the back of the first class.
There's about five or six rows ahead of us,
and then the cockpit.
And then I see that.
This dude is going nuts, up front and to the left, and he's hitting the guy's seat in front of him, and he's doing the gun gesture.
And so the flight attendants go up to him.
And they're like, sir, what's going on?
Now there's a big circle opened up around them.
No one wants to be around this guy.
He's foaming at the mouth.
He's going nuts, man.
The wife and I look at each other like, oh shit.
What the hell?
I go on so many business trips and nothing never happens.
And here I am.
I got my family on a plane.
and this dude's going nuts.
So I see the flight attendants go to the back of the plane
and they're walking down my side of the aisle
with two zip ties interlinked together.
And as they pass me, I stop him and I say,
hey, where are you guys going with that?
They go, well, we're going to restrain that guy.
I said, is there anything I could do to help?
They said, well, we have to voluntarily ask him to put these on.
And I look at the guy, and he's going berserk.
He's going nuts at this point.
So I look at the guy sitting behind my wife, and we kind of make eye contact, and we nod to each other like, all right,
shit's going to go down.
We got this, right?
And I'm thinking this is post-9-11.
So clearly, like, we're all going to dog pile on this guy.
And so the flight attendants go kind of cut in front of this guy to keep some barrier between him and the cockpit.
And I could see them with gesturing, like, sir, you have to put these on.
And he's just freaking out and yelling and threatening everybody's safety.
And the lady, the flight attendant, looks up towards me.
And she's like, help!
And she starts screaming.
You gotta come over, help.
So I get up, and I'm thinking everyone else is gonna get up.
It was just me and that other guy.
We haul ass, and as I cut in front of him, he goes to push me.
And I just duck out of the way, move his arms, and get him in a rear naked chokehold.
As it turns out, I was doing one of my six-week challenges right before that, and I was working
with Aaron Weatherspoon, who at the time was a king of the cage fighter.
And so I was really going learning M.M.A. for six weeks.
And the two chokeholds he had taught me was the guillotine chokehold and the rear naked chokehold.
As it turns out, it worked.
So we put this guy in a chokehold.
The other guy got the zip ties and we zipped tied him up.
But you always got to be prepared to fuck a motherfucker up.
You should always show up as a gentleman.
Be gentle, be courteous, be kind.
But be ready to kill someone.
Because you never know, man.
People are fucked up.
Number 12.
Have high standards of expectations for yourself and the circle that you
run with. Listen, the circle that you run with might have someone that wants to pull your standards
of expectations down. You need to have high standards of expectations and you need to be the
barometer that everyone needs to climb up to. Does that make sense? You can't come down to their
level. You need to be the one that everyone needs to climb up to. Have high standards of expectations
for yourself and everything. Health, fitness, mindset, and your relationship. Like, you better
make sure your spouse is a fucking badass, right?
And then you better be a badass spouse.
You better be a badass father, a badass business partner.
You better be a bad ass fucking customer.
When I walk into the store, I buy everything.
Especially if the salesperson's good.
Like, I will buy a lot of shit.
Like, you've got to have high standards for everything.
My cars are always clean.
My clothes are always clean.
I'm never disheveled.
I'm mentally wired.
now to be high standards and everything.
Like eating at high flutin restaurants,
private jets, first class flights,
five-star hotels, amazing resorts all over the world,
and I expect the people around me to have those type of standards.
You should too.
Number 13, make a shit ton of money
because in life you're going to need a lot more money than you think.
Simple as that.
Number 14, don't make any permanent decisions on temporary feelings, right?
Listen, man, you're human.
Shit's going to go wrong.
As my friend and retired Navy SEAL, Jason Redmond says, he's like, hey, look, in life,
there's going to be five to seven life ambushes that you're going to have to deal with.
It could be a death of a family member, like a sudden death of a family member.
It could be like, hey, I want a divorce.
It could be your business has gone bankrupt and you didn't even know it.
By the time you know it, it's too late to save it.
You are going to deal with a life ambush.
and that life ambush might make you emotional,
but do not make any permanent decisions in an emotional state on temporary feelings.
Because if you make a permanent decision on temporary feelings,
when those temporary feelings go away,
what you said, what you did, you likely cannot take away.
You might be able to apologize for it,
but it will always leave a ghost scar.
So don't make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.
Number 15, stay physically fit, mentally,
and emotionally resilient.
Look, my goal is to live to 100 years of sound body and mind.
For that to happen, I have to stay physically fit.
So I eat healthy, surround myself with quality people,
filter all my thoughts, don't watch the news
because I don't believe in negative bullshit that they spew out anyway.
Don't watch a lot of TV at all, actually.
I don't have a TV. I do have a TV,
but it's connected to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon.
That's it.
My kids have never been inside.
I got a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old.
they've never been inside of a McDonald's,
because they've never seen a McDonald's commercial.
We drive by one, they go, what's that?
I go, that's the devil.
But it's like two beautiful golden arches.
I know, that's the devil.
So my kids have never been inside one,
and they don't care to be inside one
because they haven't been brainwashed by the media.
Why do I share this with you?
Because you have to stay physically fit.
I need my kids to be physically fit.
They need to live to 150 years old
so they can have bigger impact,
have more influence in the society,
even make more money and donate that money back.
Right? So you've got to stay physically fit,
mentally tough, emotionally resilient.
Number 16, show respect to others and demand respect back.
When I said this on stage one time, somebody goes afterwards during the meeting, they go,
hey, I mean, I get showing respect to others.
But when you said demand respect back, like, what did you?
Like, grab them by the collar, like, hey, you better fucking respect me?
No, man.
If you are constantly respectful, if you show up with humility, if you are kind, if you
are a servant leader, if you ask about them instead of vomiting at the mouth,
about you, that's being respectful.
And through those actions, you are demanding respect from them.
There's no way someone can't respect you if you are respectful, kind, thoughtful towards
them, right?
And that's what I mean by demanding respect back.
Now, from time to time, you are going to meet some jerk who even though you're kind
and humble and thoughtful and caring and you ask about them and don't vomit about you,
they just don't know how to show respect.
Then you have to have enough respecting yourself
to walk away from that asshole.
And that's what I mean about demanding respect back.
I'm not talking about grabbing them by the throat
and saying, if you respect me or I'll choke you, right?
Probably a bad idea.
Number 17, don't lie, don't gossip, don't spread rumors
or get jealous of other people's success.
If you lie, you gossip and you spread rumors
and you're jealous of other people's success,
Man, that makes you a little bitch.
Nobody wants to hang out with a little bitch.
I sure don't.
Number 18.
Regularly challenge yourself.
Test your physical and mental strength.
Never peak in life.
The best is yet to come.
So many people have peaked in college.
They peaked in high school when they were the fucking quarterback, like Al Bundy.
Right?
You're like, who's Al Bundy?
Go Google, married with children.
Right?
It was a little sitcom back in the early 90s.
and Al Bundy, he went to Polk High School
and his claim to fame with some massive touchdown that he did.
And that was the peak in his life.
After that, it was just all shit, right?
Listen, you're never going to peak.
Like, live the kind of life where you were constantly challenging yourself,
learning new stuff.
You always hearing me talking about the six-week challenges that I do.
I trained for six weeks, ran a marathon.
I trained for six weeks in jujitsu
and learned how to fucking roll
and grapple. I learned for six weeks with MMA, learn how to take a punch and deliver a punch
and the movie tie clench and deliver knees and move fast. Learn how to surf, learn how to rock climb.
Why do I share this with you? I just keep wanting to learn. And if I keep wanting to learn,
the best version of me is always out there. It's always past me, right? I don't ever want to
surpass myself. Like, think about that. I'm 45. What if, what if like this is the year?
that I stopped growing.
But I turn 55, 65, 75, 75, now I'm bitter.
Now I hate life.
Because, well, my best days are behind me.
And so I'm always gonna train hard,
be mentally tough, emotionally resilient,
always test myself because I do not wanna peak,
because I know the best version of me
is still around the corner to come.
Number 19, never negotiate with your inner bitch.
You gotta be a beast at everything.
Think about this.
I was just talking about, you know, training for six weeks and running a marathon.
I weigh 220 pounds.
I'm not necessarily a long distance 26.2 mile marathon runner.
It's for that reason.
I said, fuck that.
I'm not going to keep myself in that box of when I don't know how to run a marathon.
I'm not designed to run long distance, so I'm just going to keep lifting weights.
Fuck that.
I can do anything I want.
So I hired a running coach and I said, hey, I need you to train me for six weeks.
Give me running protocols.
And then at the end of six weeks, I'm going to go run the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon.
And she did.
She gave me the routine to follow and I just followed it.
And before I know it, I'm running four miles.
And the next night I'm running five miles.
And I take a day off.
And then I run seven miles.
And then I take a day off.
And then I run eight miles.
And I take a day.
Whatever, right?
Before you know it, I ran a marathon in six weeks.
But in that time of training for that marathon.
There were days that I wanted to quit.
If I had to do a 10-mile run today, at mile number seven,
I started to negotiate with my inner bitch.
Like, dude, why are you doing this?
Your knees hurt, your ankles hurt.
This sucks.
This is not as fun as lifting when you're in an air-conditioned room,
moving a whole bunch of weight.
This is you lumbering along like a giant fucking woolly mammoth.
They were not meant to run.
And I would just negotiate with myself.
I was like, you know, you could just fake an injury
and tell the coach, like, you know, I pulled something,
something I can't run the marathon and just pull out of it. No one's going to know. It's not like I
publicly announced my big six-week challenges. I always talk about it after the fact. So you guys
weren't going to know, but guess who would know? Me? I would know that I lost credibility with
myself. As my friend Tom Billu says, the moment you lose credibility with yourself, you've lost all
confidence. And so if you negotiate with your inner bitch and choose easy over difficult, you will
end up literally killing the beast and letting the bitch run your life. Think about that.
And number 20, last but not least, leadership is always the problem and leadership is the
solution. I don't know what problem you're having in your life, in your business, in your
relationship, and your health, but I can tell you this, it's leadership based. You don't have
a marketing problem. You have a leadership problem. If you have a business and you think you just
need more leads, then as a leader, you should find someone who knows how to drive leads from
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, fucking pay-per-click ads, search engine optimization,
right? As a leader, you need to find a solution. This is why leadership is the problem.
Leadership is a solution. And you're like, but I can't afford a traffic buyer. I can't afford
someone to go do that for me. Then you better lead yourself into learning how. If you don't,
it's your fault, which means what?
It's the leader's fault.
Leadership is always a problem.
Leadership is always a solution.
And if you accept that, you're never going to have a marketing problem, a sales problem.
Because look, if you have a sales problem, oh my God, I need a better salesperson.
Go find the better salesperson.
An effective leader goes and finds the salesperson, sells them on his or her vision,
compensates them enough to want to stay and sell.
And then what about if you have a retention problem?
Guess what? A good leader figures out how to fix the retention problem.
But now I got a tax problem. A good leader figures out smart tax shelters.
Leadership is always a problem. Leadership is always a solution. In your family, in your fitness, in your finances, in your faith.
And if you can live by those 20 rules, man, I'm telling you're going to have a good life.
And if you're 20 years old, 25, 30, 35 years old, 40 years old, 40 years old,
Well, man, you're learning all these things before me, because I'm 45 and this is what I know.
Now, I wonder when you double that 45 and I'm 90 years old, how long this list will be.
I can tell you this.
At 90, I'll still be around doing this.
The list might be 100 points, 100 bullet points long, but it's because I'll have experienced more.
I've gained more wisdom, and I'll have certainly suffered a lot more losses, adversities, tragedies.
but I will be up and I'll be fighting.
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just like Jim Franco, my mentor,
mentored me, right? And this is how I get to mentor the masses. When he was mentoring me 20 years ago,
there was no social media. Today there is. So he wasn't able to impact a lot of people,
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