Valuetainment - How Messi’s Coach Was Inspired By Him

00:00:00.000 The other day I read a quote by Messi's coach, Pep Guardiola, gave me the chills all over my body.

00:00:04.300 And if you're a leader or you want to be a great leader, I think this is going to give you a

00:00:06.980 complete different perspective on leadership. If you get value from this video, give it a thumbs

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00:01:16.160 Messi the best player in the world, but he ended up making me one of the best managers in the world.

00:01:22.120 Pretty wild quote, right? When you think about that, I try to make Messi the best player in the world.

00:01:25.820 I'm the best managers in the world. Aren't you the leader? Aren't you the coach? Like, you're supposed

00:01:29.060 to do that to me. He's not supposed to do that to you, but that's the mindset of somebody that thinks

00:01:32.300 they have the responsibility of knowing it all. You have to be the leader of everything. You know how

00:01:35.880 many times I've had interactions with my kids where they've challenged me? I'm like, whoa, that was very

00:01:39.760 interesting what just happened right there. How many times I've had conversations with the people I

00:01:42.820 work with, and I'm like, that was a very good point of view. That was a very interesting thing.

00:01:45.680 So some of them may say, oh wow, so what you're saying is the fact that Messi was his coach. That's why this quote is

00:01:49.740 so powerful. But this guy has his own resume stacked as an individual leader. Watch his resume, by the way,

00:01:55.620 what he's done. He holds the record for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga,

00:02:00.300 in Bundesliga, and Premier League. He was a former player. He was named the FIFA World Coach of the

00:02:05.540 Year. He won four Premier League titles, four EFL Cups, the FA Cup, a domestic treble in 2018-19.

00:02:12.460 At 37 years old, he became the youngest manager to lift the UEFA Champions League trophy. This is in

00:02:17.800 the history ever. He was the youngest to do it. So again, he's not a lightweight coach. This is a guy

00:02:21.440 that's stacked with his resume. But if you watch him when he celebrates Messi scoring, there's this

00:02:25.100 famous video where Messi scores a goal, and he's just sitting like a proud father celebrating with

00:02:29.160 his son, saying, wow, it's so awesome to be working with this. But I'm curious about that quote. Is he

00:02:33.460 saying it because Messi made him a great coach, or is he saying it because a handful of players were so

00:02:38.900 difficult, so annoying, with such a big upside, that he had to work 10 times harder to move them

00:02:45.500 until all of a sudden, one day, a message showed up, and he's like, man, I have to spend 100 hours

00:02:50.480 on these guys, but I just have to ask Messi this thing one time, and he wants it so bad. And some

00:02:54.620 of these guys were just as capable, but they just weren't mentally willing to pay the price like

00:02:58.560 this guy's willing to pay the price to make it to the highest level. A coach becomes grateful for

00:03:02.820 great players only if he's had a lot of challenging, difficult personalities he worked with. So

00:03:08.180 you ought to be as grateful for these guys as you are for these guys. In my career, I got four kids

00:03:12.640 now. Some of the things my kids do that's annoying, and it's challenging, like, you know, you get

00:03:16.540 cornered, you don't know how to handle it. I go all the way back to a handful of personalities

00:03:20.240 I've worked with in the last 20-something years of leading salespeople in businesses, and I'll say,

00:03:24.020 man, you remind me of that guy back in 2004. You remember about that guy, that one guy in 2008 that

00:03:29.220 was very hard to work with in that six-month stint? What you just did reminds me of what he did,

00:03:32.820 but I know how to handle it because that guy coached me. You know what you just did right now,

00:03:35.860 son? You don't even know, and I'm saying it in my mind. I've gone through this 17 times with other

00:03:40.020 people. That was my training to become a great parent. Those difficult people I work with

00:03:44.880 challenged me to become a better leader today. So it's not all about the people you work with

00:03:49.780 that are easy. Sometimes if your goal is to be a great leader, somehow, someway, God, or whatever

00:03:54.380 spirit you believe in, is going to put some interesting people in your life that will force you

00:03:58.580 to say, I don't even know how to work with this guy. Everything I do is difficult with this person.

00:04:03.000 Why are these people so difficult? Well, maybe that's your challenge to see if you're willing to up

00:04:06.740 your game to learn how to move this person. Because a great leader is either going to say,

00:04:10.020 yep, I'm willing to invest in this person because there are shown signs of greatness,

00:04:13.500 or no, I'm wasting my time. Nothing else is going to happen here because the attitude is that bad.

00:04:18.000 They lack gratitude. They think they know it all. They're difficult to work with. I'm simply

00:04:21.700 needing to move on and fire this person. You're firing this customer, this client, this individual,

00:04:27.720 and say, I just can't save this person, and I'm going to move on and find somebody to work with.

00:04:31.900 And you're going to say, now I realize why I'm so grateful for this person. Maybe the quote for me

00:04:35.660 was deeper than an average person that reads it. But I read this quote, I'm like, oh my God.

00:04:39.620 I found somebody in the company that I work with. So put 2015, I've been in the business since 2001,

00:04:45.740 15, 14, 14 years later, I hired somebody that we work with, Sopalos. I couldn't believe how easy

00:04:51.580 they were to work with. I didn't turn these guys into leaders. They were leaders. But you work with

00:04:55.660 them, you're like, I just watch them. Look at these guys, look what they're doing. Look what they're

00:04:58.480 so awesome, so great. Look what they're doing. This is so amazing. But I have to go through this to be

00:05:03.000 grateful for people like this that make everybody else better. As a leader, if that's your goal,

00:05:07.880 you're going to go through it as well, and it's going to be a wild ride. So if you appreciate

00:05:10.900 the quote, it's probably because it hits you the way it hit me as well at the current phase you're

00:05:17.200 at. So if you enjoyed this video, I got another video I want you to watch is 10 traits to develop

00:05:21.940 as leaders. If you've never seen that, click here to watch it. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Valuetainment - March 16, 2023

How Messi’s Coach Was Inspired By Him

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