Episode 253： How to Handle Chaos as an Entrepreneur
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Summary
It's amazing how many entrepreneurs don't make it in business or survive simply because they don't know how to handle chaos. Believe me, this is something that was very difficult for me initially when I was an entrepreneur. But let me tell you, what you see behind me is a moving truck. In the last seven days, this has happened in the last 7 days. I'm currently in California. We are moving our entire family to Dallas, Texas. We bought a house right behind me. We're moving the office. We had to move all of our staff's stuff from their house. I think every single thing taking place here, they had to go to all their homes and move their things.
Transcript
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Pat Trebedev, your host of ITM, and today we're going to talk about how you can handle
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It's amazing how many entrepreneurs don't make it in business or survive simply because
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Believe me, this is something that was very difficult for me initially when I was an
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But let me tell you what's going on right now in my life.
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In the last seven days, this is what's happened in the last seven days.
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We are moving our entire family to Dallas, Texas.
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We're moving all of our staff's stuff from their house.
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The things we had to move from the office yesterday till one o'clock in the morning.
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I think every single thing taking place here, they had to go to all their homes and move
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We had a convention that took place last week, four-day convention with speaker lineup of
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Aloncer Jr., Robert Green, Joe Jordan, Grant Cardone.
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And it started from eight o'clock in the morning, went till midnight, four days straight.
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Then on the last day, we had to surprise some of our leaders and had to have all the things
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I took them to a Laker event with Shaq and Jeannie Buss and went and got a private tour
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of the locker room and had dinner and shot around at the regular court of the Lakers.
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Family's over here dealing with the real estate sale here.
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And so someone asked, how do you handle what all these things take in place and how do
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I said, it's a perfect episode to put together because the question gets asked quite often
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So today I'm going to talk about three things with chaos.
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One, the big four of chaos, four types of chaos.
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Two, three types of people and how they respond to chaos and seven tips on how you can become
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There are four types of chaos and believe it or not, they're all connected.
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Some don't know how to handle breakups and it leaks into their business life.
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Two out of three marriages nowadays end up at a divorce.
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We're all only here for about 70, 80, 90 years.
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Children that are going through their own breakups, going, they're getting sick.
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These are all small chaos that are taking place.
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Some of you are having a hard time watching this video because of the sound you're hearing
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I have people always tell me, I have this wedding.
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And morning till night, everything gets affected because there's a wedding day.
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Everything goes on shutdown for about 90 days when there's a house.
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You're, you know, you prolong your sickness because you don't take care of yourself and
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Your diet is chaotic because of the way you handle yourself.
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How long ago was it when my voice, what happened to, this was a year, year and a half ago,
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If you go back and watch some of my old videos, you'll hear my voice is completely gone.
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And we went to the doctor, multiple doctors, and they said, this could be cancer.
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And then all of a sudden, I had to do a surgery.
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And we found out the good news was it was benign.
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And it's right before Thanksgiving when the surgery was done.
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This is the first time ever in my life in Thanksgiving we're having dinner.
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Maybe it was God's way of saying you need to be quiet for about a month.
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One of your agents or rep or an employee didn't treat a client well.
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A business partner doesn't do as much as you want them to do.
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Your IT guys are not doing their part behind the scenes.
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Then you have your sales guys are not hitting their numbers.
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Your investor is doing too many conference calls on you, hitting your numbers.
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This is going to happen when you're running a business.
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By the way, most of the time, the way you handle these three will automatically affect this.
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If you don't know how to handle these three, this is always going to take a hit.
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Because one of these things are always going to happen in our lives, no matter what we do.
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So how do we make sure we handle this to make sure we're leading this?
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So let's talk about three types of ways people handle chaos.
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Let's talk about three types of ways people handle chaos.
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All day long they're overreacting to the issue.
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They use it as an alibi to get in the way of getting to the next level.
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So a lot of times, believe it or not, people like to create chaos in their lives.
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If they create chaos in their lives, they can always use that as an alibi why this is why
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It gives them a reason to talk amongst their peers and say, the reason why I didn't make
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it as a real estate agent is because of X, Y, Z.
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The reason why I didn't make it as an insurance agent is because of X, Y, Z.
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The reason why I couldn't make it as an entrepreneur is did.
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What experts do is they're not afraid to ask for help.
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What experts do is they process issues quickly.
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There's nothing like knowing there's going to be problems.
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There's nothing like knowing I'm going to ask for help to see if somebody else knows how
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And last but not least, process issues quickly.
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So if there's an issue, let's address it quickly.
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So now, seven tips, seven tips, seven tips on how to handle chaos like a pro.
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So you may be in a problem and chaotic time and everybody is overreacting.
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It's your job as a leader to give perspective to everybody.
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So for instance, the other day somebody told me what they told me and everybody was, oh my
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goodness, what are we going to do with this, what are we going to do with that, so listen
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While we're here having to solve this business problem, there is bombs and rockets and all
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Somebody needs to always put perspective and give gratitude.
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Someone needs to not turn a molehill into a mountain.
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There are issues that are very critical that needs to be solved right away.
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But someone needs to say, this is not a big deal.
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Just because something's happened in your business, you can't highlight it as chaos.
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It just could be a small little issue you need to fix.
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So you don't need to make it bigger than it really is.
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It's what you need to do when there's chaotic times in your life.
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Go to somebody who has been in your relationship, in your position before personal life or parenting and have someone like that give you counsel.
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If something's going on in the government or, you know, a law got passed or new regulation got passed or something's happened with the economy, you can't do nothing about that.
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It's an extremely big thing because it's a very important employee.
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You need to be able to control what you can control.
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It's extremely important to be over-preparing yourself and your team.
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Five, come up with the next three steps on what you need to be doing.
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Come up with the next three steps on what you need to be doing.
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Meaning, if there's a trend of the same person who keeps giving birth to the chaos, you either need to fire that person or get rid of that person or there needs to be something being solved here because they're giving birth to all the chaos.
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How you react to it will dictate how much you advance in life as an entrepreneur.
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