Most people live by the bandaid mentality. You can t fix everything with a bandaid. You can't fix your home, your business, your marriage, your health, your family, your finances, your financial problems, your mental health, if you fix it with a Bandaid, it will only compound into more problems. You have so many issues you re dealing with that you don t have time to pursue all of your dreams, you get stuck and sucked in all of these problems.
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00:00:17.280I'm Patrick with every host of ITIM and today I'm going to talk to you about something called the band-aid mentality.
00:00:21.920Let me tell you about this band-aid mentality, most people live by the band-aid mentality, I've been talking about this for many, many years.
00:00:26.700Listen, I'm in Jamaica right now, we brought a couple hundred of our executives to stay at this Moon Palace and one of my favorite parts about these trips, one of my favorite parts about these trips is a late night conversation, favorite part, because it gets deeper.
00:00:42.300Last time I'm having a conversation, probably at about 1 o'clock, 12.30, and one of the guys I'm talking to, you know, everything that I brought up, this person kept saying,
00:00:52.820well, you know, I'm just trying to make sure that this is not going to create another conflict with this person or I just want to make sure we're going to be good with this person for six months or 12 months or 18 months.
00:01:04.780I just want them to be good. And I said, listen, every single thing you're looking at in life, you're looking at it as a band-aid.
00:01:11.300Let me fix it with a band-aid. Let me fix it with a band-aid. Let me fix it with a band-aid. Let me fix it with a band-aid.
00:01:15.860Some things you cannot fix with a band-aid. Some things you cannot. You cannot fix a lot of things with band-aid.
00:01:23.640People have some major health issues and their band-aid mentality is, oh, I'll just take a Tylenol.
00:01:28.880You can't fix a home with a band-aid at the top. If rain comes, your ceiling is going to get messed up.
00:01:35.560You cannot fix a lot of your business problems with a band-aid. You cannot.
00:01:40.840You cannot fix your marital problems with a band-aid. Some marital issues are terrible.
00:01:46.620You got to go sit with a psychologist and figure them out.
00:01:49.860You cannot fix your health issue, your weight problem with a band-aid.
00:01:53.260Oh, let me drink, you know, such and such or let me take this pill or let me do this.
00:01:57.880I'm going to lose 15 pounds. You can't fix a lot of things with a band-aid.
00:02:02.200And here's what happens if you fix everything with a band-aid.
00:02:05.220Fast forward a year from now, two years from now, three years from now,
00:02:08.260all of those band-aids, the wounds, have gotten bigger, have gotten worse.
00:02:13.720And now it's going to compound and you got to figure out a way to fix all those band-aids that you put up.
00:02:19.820And now you got to do 30 surgeries and then you lose momentum.
00:02:23.980And I go, oh my gosh, you just don't understand what I'm going through.
00:02:26.560I'm having issues with my marriage. I'm having issues with my health.
00:02:29.140I'm having issues with my business. I'm having issues with my family.
00:02:31.700I'm having issues because you avoided conflict all these years
00:02:34.800because everything to you was about fixing it with a band-aid.
00:02:39.360So, as you watch this video, make a list.
00:02:44.280What's that one conversation I need to have with a family member I haven't had for a while?
00:02:47.280And I've been fixing it with a band-aid.
00:02:50.420What am I doing with my marriage, with my relationship, trying to fix everything with a band-aid?
00:02:53.700You know what? We just try to avoid each other so we don't fight.