Valuetainment - July 23, 2020


Episode 498： Did You Hear What They Said About You？


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

200.80855

Word Count

1,159

Sentence Count

86


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You have a reputation, you, you have a reputation, could be good, could be bad, but you have a reputation.
00:00:27.500 Your peers think of you in a certain way.
00:00:30.880 Your family thinks of you of a certain way.
00:00:33.960 Your spouse, your kids, everybody thinks of you in a certain way.
00:00:38.220 Now, obviously at this point, maybe many of you have read the quote by John Wooden who says,
00:00:43.900 you know, don't be too concerned about your reputation, only be concerned about your character
00:00:47.620 because character is who you really are, reputation is what others think of you.
00:00:50.920 It's a nice statement to say, and I've seen a lot of people hide behind it because they'll say,
00:00:54.440 I don't care what people think about my reputation, it's my character.
00:00:59.520 I don't care what other people say about me, it's my character.
00:01:02.720 The reality is, your reputation is like your credit score and everyone's got one.
00:01:07.540 If you don't pay your bills on time, you got a bad credit.
00:01:10.380 If you keep saying you're going to do something and you don't, you got a bad reputation.
00:01:14.040 If you keep saying things you're going to do and you do, you got a good reputation.
00:01:17.200 If you keep buying cars and homes and you pay them off, you got a good credit score.
00:01:20.540 Nothing changes.
00:01:21.120 So here's my point to you about these times.
00:01:23.380 What does this have to do with today?
00:01:24.640 Everything.
00:01:25.440 41 million people have applied for unemployment.
00:01:27.720 Highest ever in the history of America.
00:01:29.160 Unemployment is around 30% amongst people that work.
00:01:32.560 One out of four people are applying for unemployment right now.
00:01:35.600 One out of four people today, minimum, don't have a job.
00:01:38.780 One out of four.
00:01:39.240 That's a big number.
00:01:39.920 It's not a small number we're talking about.
00:01:41.760 41 million.
00:01:43.040 So why is this a good opportunity for your reputation?
00:01:45.760 Here's why.
00:01:46.760 Slowly we're going back to normal.
00:01:48.300 Everybody's calling it a new normal this, a new normal that, but slowly we're going back
00:01:52.040 to normal.
00:01:52.880 While we're going back to normal, if there's ever been a time to change your reputation
00:01:58.920 and regain respect in the marketplace with a new reputation, it's today.
00:02:04.520 Here's what I mean.
00:02:05.620 There are three different types of people in life.
00:02:08.660 Three types.
00:02:09.300 In any business, in any endeavor, there's three different types.
00:02:11.780 There are the lead dogs, then there's the responders, then there are the late bloomers.
00:02:19.160 Let me explain to you how this works.
00:02:20.920 The lead dog is a person that sits there and says, you know what, everybody else is doing
00:02:24.160 this, everybody's trying to go back to work life, back to normal career, business, job,
00:02:30.520 whatever it is, all these 41 million people.
00:02:33.120 I'm going to be the lead dog and I'm going to recreate myself and I'm going to go out there
00:02:36.340 and do my business in ways no other's ever done it before.
00:02:38.960 Here's what I'm going to do.
00:02:40.220 I'm going to go and be confident and have a lot of courage while everybody else still
00:02:44.500 kind of playing like, oh my gosh, let me see what everybody else does before I move my
00:02:48.000 next one.
00:02:48.560 I'm taking a lead.
00:02:49.580 I don't care what everybody else is doing.
00:02:51.140 I'm taking the lead because I'm the lead dog of my family, of my business, of my company,
00:02:56.840 of my industry.
00:02:57.920 You choose that.
00:02:59.200 Then when the lead dog takes the lead, guess who else comes next?
00:03:04.080 All the responders.
00:03:05.060 Here's what the responders do.
00:03:06.540 Did you see what the other person...
00:03:07.540 He went to work...
00:03:09.420 The other guys had closed restaurants.
00:03:11.360 He opened his restaurants four weeks before.
00:03:12.820 Did you see the other guys wearing masks at his restaurants?
00:03:15.140 They were masks.
00:03:16.180 These guys don't wear masks at his...
00:03:17.580 Everybody then responds to the lead dog.
00:03:21.080 The lead dog gets the biggest criticism.
00:03:22.840 The lead dog has the biggest risk.
00:03:24.220 The lead dog is the one that gets the attention because you could be wrong as a lead dog.
00:03:28.580 The lead dog could make a decision that maybe won't work in your favor, but you are the
00:03:32.500 lead dog.
00:03:32.960 The glory and the hate comes at the price of being the lead dog.
00:03:37.640 And the lead dog is the one that everybody talks about.
00:03:40.980 Then comes the safe people, which is the responders, who respond to a lead dog.
00:03:45.460 Then it's the late bloomers who kind of sit there and say, well, you know, my unemployment
00:03:50.340 checks kind of stops August 31st.
00:03:53.160 I'm just going to go till the very end and then I'll start applying for a job.
00:03:57.120 August 16th is what I'm going to do.
00:03:59.360 Why would I go to work if the government's giving me free money?
00:04:02.520 I don't need to apply for a job.
00:04:04.120 I'll go back to work September 1st when they stop paying me my unemployment.
00:04:08.640 If you're in that community, you're the late bloomer.
00:04:12.040 Things are not going to change in your life, unfortunately.
00:04:14.580 You're always going to be the person that comes late and life's typically going to be
00:04:18.220 tough for you and ain't nothing going to change unless if you change today.
00:04:21.700 Okay, my challenge to all of you watching this is if you're a late bloomer, become a responder.
00:04:28.020 If you're somebody that typically is a responder, challenge yourself to be a lead dog.
00:04:33.200 And if you're a lead dog, try to get yourself to be a lead dog of the next level.
00:04:38.960 Meaning, if you've always been a lead dog of a league at YMCA, try to see if now you
00:04:44.920 can be the lead dog of the next league of better players.
00:04:47.680 If you've always been a lead dog of your office, try to be the lead dog of your region now.
00:04:53.000 If you've always been a lead dog of your region, try to be the lead dog of the nation.
00:04:57.640 If you've always been a lead dog of a national whatever company you're a part of, try to
00:05:01.740 be the lead dog globally.
00:05:02.940 It doesn't matter.
00:05:03.720 Upgrade the level of lead dog you've always done in your career and you'll see things
00:05:07.740 changing for you as well.
00:05:09.000 Because at the end of the day, during times like this, those who choose to lead are going
00:05:13.920 to have a very, very special next 12, 24, 36, 5, 10 years waiting for them.
00:05:21.980 Thanks everybody for listening.
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00:05:43.300 With that being said, have a great day today.
00:05:45.300 Take care everybody.
00:05:46.040 Bye-bye.