KGCI: Real Estate on Air - A Message from Boy Meets World

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

What is going on and welcome back to another episode of The Real and Raw Show. I'm your host, John Marone. And today we are going to go over a message from Mr. Feeney. Mr. Feeney. So if you guys are probably anywhere from, I would say, 28 to 38, maybe to 40, you know who Mr. Feeney is. If you are younger than this, you may not know who Mr. Feeney is. Mr. Feeney is from a show called Boy Meets World.

I know Boy Meets World lovers out there. I'll tell you. I love Boy Meets World, right? I mean, it was one of my favorite shows growing up. And I just heard a message just now. And it's something that I definitely preach about a lot. But it's just so funny looking back at whether it's old shows or new shows, the messages that are being delivered are so,

monumental in a way of transformation, but I think sometimes maybe we miss it in the middle of the show, right? Maybe we're listening to the show or watching a show and we're just there and we're not fully focused and we missed the main message that the writers or maybe the actors wanted the world to hear. And so this is a tribute to Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World and the message. And then I want talk about the message. So Mr. Feeney is a principal of a school. Now, Mr. Feeney is also the neighbor of a boy name, uh, Corey, right? So he's a neighbor of a boy named Corey. Let me make sure. I think Corey is the neighbor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sean's a bad guy. That's not the bad guy. He's a, he's a bad boy. All right? So let me run this for you guys. So we have Mr. Feeney who is a,

a principal and he is a neighbor of this kid named Corey. Corey is dating girl named Topanga. Corey's best friend is Sean who's like a bad guy. And Corey's not really bad guy, bad guy, like a bad boy. Corey's more of like a button up shirt type of kid. So here's the message. This is later in years. So they started Boy Meets World when Corey was probably, I don't know, nine. And now this message is when Corey is probably about 17. So it went on for a while this show. But here's Mr. Feeney. Remember, the principal of Corey talking to him outside his house because he's also his neighbor. All right.

Hold on one. Ready? You see that flower? That flower was in a small part in my room surrounding. So I transplanted it here in the garden. Seems like it's doing okay. Oh, yes. It's flourishing.

Now, when I pulled the flower out of the small part in my living room, it, uh, it, uh, It resisted a little. I were trying to hang on by its roots. Because you thought it would do better out here. It was stop growing. So in case you missed the message, like I did probably watching this, I'm playing it one more time. Now, people say, John, why would you play it again? I just heard it.

I need you to feel it. I need you to feel it this time. Because maybe you heard it, but maybe now you need to actually feel the message. So here is the message from a wise man to his neighbor. and a message from me to you, the listener. I was in a small pounding, so I transplanted it here in the garden. It seems like it's doing okay. Oh, yes, it's flourishing.

Now, when I pulled the flower out of the small part of my living room, it resisted a little, you know, trying to hang on by its roots. I had to force it out. Because you thought it would do better out here. Because I thought... So there you have it. Maybe you're in a position right now.

where you need to be forced out of your current environment to grow. Like Corey ass, well, it's because you thought of you'd do better out here. What are you more worried about? Like, you need to be fearful of not growing. You don't know if it's going to do better out here. We don't. We think, we imagine, we hope, we pray, but we don't know. But don't do it because of that.

That should be the side effect. Do it because you're afraid that you won't grow anymore. Leave the environment you're in. Your friends, I'm not saying they're bad for you. I'm not saying they're holding you back. But I'm asking you, are they holding you back? I'm asking you, are they where you want to be? I'm asking you, do you look up to them and want to mirror their actions, mirror their characters?

Because if you don't, you may. want to try to find yourself in a new environment. Not saying get rid of your friends. I'm just saying expand into a different environment. Now, what you might find at the end of it is that you do want to really put some separation from your friends to who you are. And that's fine. Or you might find that there's a time and place.

Now, maybe you're listening to you have great friends. That's awesome. What about in your work environment? Are you putting yourself an environment? Are you putting yourself into whether it's a coaching group, whether it's your business, whether it's networking, in a group where people are actually up leveling, uplifting each other, or are you in a place where they're belittling or complaining or have a fixed mindset, not a growth mindset? You may be one environment change away from hitting your goals. You may be one environment away. Think about that.

I can tell you that as much as I love my friends back home without changing my environment, I don't know if I'm sitting here with you today. I don't know if I'm behind bars. I don't. Not saying they were bad people, but I made bad decisions. And I'm not saying they were at fault, but I'm saying the way that I was labeled, which was the fighter or the this, that, it made me make bad decisions. It's not on them.

It's on me because I'm the one who did it. It made me think differently. It's not on them. It's, I'm the one I thought differently around them. So I don't know if I would be having this conversation with you right now if it wasn't for me changing my environment. I got forced to change my environment. I was homeless, basically.

Right? And at that point, trying to go from house to house from place to place and finding landing on a place and realizing that I need to make. a change. Otherwise, I don't know how long I could live like this. And so you may be an environment right now that's not conducive to where you want to go. The surroundings may not be what you need for growth. To flourish, you may need to move a little bit. And maybe that movement is sitting in front of a podcast a little longer or listening to more books or YouTube channels. I had to do that. You know, I didn't really have any friends when I first moved to Texas many years ago. And so I just

put myself in rooms, aka YouTube rooms, of people that I admired, the Darren Hardy's, the Tony Robbins, right? And fortunate enough, it started to change the way I started to think, which allowed me to operate differently, which allowed me to attract. See, when you put yourself into a different environment that's conducive to growth, it gives you an opportunity to start to think differently. by thinking differently, you start to act differently. By acting differently, you start to attract differently. And that may be where you need to begin this week. Not changing your thoughts, not changing your actions, not changing your belief, but maybe changing your environment.

So the rest can fall in line. It's hard to change the way we think when we're in a constant negative environment. It's hard to change our action when we're, in a constant stagnant environment. So as much as you want to have the willpower to change, your soil may not be the soil that's going to allow you to change. It may not allow you to grow. So uproot yourself.

Find the soil. Find the environment. Find the area that's going to give you the best opportunity. And if not, I don't know what the next five years will look like for you. because sometimes that's all it comes down to is uprooting, putting us into the right position, aka the right people around us, to give us the best opportunity to start to think differently,

to start to do differently, to start to attract differently, and start to get more. And it's not what it's all about, right? So I'm not telling you that your memories of your friends or that environment is not valid. I'm not saying that because I hold on to my memories of my friends very, very close to my friends.

very, very close to my heart. But I also know in order to continue to grow, I needed to put myself in check on who's around me that's helping me grow. Who's around me that's pushing me to grow? Who's around me that's supporting me? And then the other way, who's around me that's complaining, that's infecting the way I think? Who's around me that is not taking the action? But all I do is talk about it. That's putting me in that same category. So find your way, to a next level, it might be starting with changing the environment. And it doesn't need to be spending thousands of dollars getting into a room or moving across country or, you know, moving to another town.

It doesn't need to be that. It could simply mean that you can start to create your own environment in your current condition. There's a story about the bean. I should have you ever heard it before. the bean in the water, right? I think it goes something like this. So if you put a carrot in a boiling water, what happens?

What happens? The carrot, right? It mushes, right? You put a banana, or no, it stays hard, sorry, it stays hard. But you put a banana in a boiling water. What happens? The banana mushes, right? You get soft.

But if you put a coffee bean in a boiling, water, what happens? You get coffee. So you have a carrot that stays hard when it goes into boiling water. You have a, uh, you have a, a banana that gets even softer when you put into boiling water, but you have this coffee bean that changes the water. So the water seems to change everything, but that coffee bean. The circumstances are the same. The water is the same, but what got put in that water is the difference. So what does that mean for you? It's, be the, the coffee bean. Maybe you can't actually extract yourself from your environment because of multiple reasons. But can you, where you currently are, be the coffee bean and change your environment

right where you stand. Start putting up boundaries. Start watching different things that aren't putting you into a negative mindset. Getting yourself around growth-minded people. So you could either a move yourself move go to a different job put yourself in a different position or the more likely candidate because a lot of us it's not that easy just to do is become the coffee bean and start to set the boundaries to what you allow in your environment and only allow the things that are conducive for your growth in it everything else either gets cut off or it gets put in the distance follow what mr fienie said and go start the first step to growth and that's evaluating your environment and changing it however it's needed.

If you guys found it's valuable, and maybe you have some great people in your environment, share this out with them and say thank you for being the soil to help me grow. Thank you for being the light that helps me grow. Thank you for being a nutrients that helps me grow. And tag me in it. right if you got the right people in your corner right now let them know thank you for being the soil to help me grow thank you for being a light to help me grow thank you for being the nutrients to help me grow because those are the people that we need to say thank you for because they

are a huge catalyst to our growth share it out with them we'll love to help you get into the right environment love to help you walk you through your current situation and how to help you grow. And by the way, if you haven't seen Boy Meets World, go find it. It's probably on Netflix or on Amazon Prime. Go watch it. All right, not the new one. I think the new one has like depending on the new, no, the old Boy Meets World. Go watch it. You won't be disappointed. All right. There's not many shows like they used to like modern family, friends, Boy Meets World. They don't make them like they used to. Don't make them like they used to. All right. So look, I appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for listening, don't forget, don't wait for their door of opportunity to open this week.

Go kick that damn door down and take what is yours.