Dan Martell - October 08, 2023


The lighthouse vs the tugboat

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Dan Martell
I was $20K in dept at 23 years old… The most common thing in the world is a consistent man with no results

Episode Stats


Length

42 seconds

Words per minute

227.81

Word count

160

Sentence count

19


Summary

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In this episode I talk about how important it is to be the person that your kids would listen to you. You can t show up and say to your kids, go for your dreams and then they watch you chill out and drink on weekends.

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00:00:00.000 You can't show up and say to your kids, go for your dreams.
00:00:02.980 And then they watch you chill out, drink on weekends.
00:00:06.360 Yesterday at the event, he literally said this to me.
00:00:08.520 My kids don't listen to me.
00:00:09.680 And I looked at him.
00:00:10.500 I grabbed his soft jelly arms, man.
00:00:12.860 And I go, dude, you don't listen to you.
00:00:15.500 And you're upset because your kids aren't listening to you.
00:00:17.960 Go become the person he would listen to.
00:00:20.140 Work on you, man.
00:00:21.160 Go be the lighthouse.
00:00:22.340 The lighthouse does the same job as the tugboat.
00:00:24.440 There's a ship out in the ocean.
00:00:25.940 It's coming into the harbor.
00:00:27.200 You want to keep it safe.
00:00:28.140 The lighthouse can help thousands of ships and it doesn't take any effort.
00:00:33.120 It's just an example of where the boundaries are by being there.
00:00:37.460 Whereas the tugboat, which most people, they're like, hey, you should do this or stop doing that.
00:00:41.260 Don't be that person.