Can You Make It Rain Harder?

Happy Wednesday, Cadre. Just gonna keep rocking on the live train. Let's go. I got a good one for you today. Any football fans out there? Any football fans out here? This guy. This guy for sure. It's a big deal in our family, always watching football and then getting to that big game, the Super bowl, as soon as that Super bowl hits, it's, you know, always a great Sunday with family. Can't wait for all the. The commercials, halftime shows, right? All. All the things there. But I wanted to take you down memory lane from 2007, right?

2007. Does anybody know who played the halftime show in 2007? Give it 1 second here. See if anybody knows who played the halftime show. 2007. 2007. It was the Chicago Bears against the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, and it was none other than the hometown hero, Mister Prince. Mister Prince played the 2007 halftime show, and it was utterly epic. But what made it epic was the backstory that I'm gonna share with you today. Now, there's this saying that the Navy Seals has. That's called full benefit. Full benefit, right.

Remember that when I tell you this. Okay? So the. Around, like, noonish in Miami from the Atlantic Ocean started just having, like, these monsoon esque type of weather, right? Monsoon esque type of weather, just coming into Miami and just crushing dolphin stadium. So, you know, they had to make an executive decision about what they should do at halftime. So imagine a hundred million viewers, right? Well, it's like 94 million viewers. 100,000. 100,000 individuals at the stadium. And they were gonna pull the plug on the halftime show.

It'd been the first time ever. And, you know, well, I don't know if they had it at the Ice bowl, but naturally, to shut down the halftime show must have been that things must have been pretty bad, right? And so those. It was horrific weather coming in, and it just kept dousing and just trudging on the. On the field. And during the halftime show, when it was about to start, it just kept getting progressively worse and worse and worse. So the director that was running the halftime show had to make an executive decision with their team.

And so they were all meeting, and they're all meeting about, and they said, I think we should pull the pin, but let's talk about this. And then one of the guys said, I think we should leave it up to Prince. So they're like, all right, sounds good. We'll let Prince know. And it's either going to be a yes or no if Prince wants to do it or not, right? I mean, the stage was made out of this tile that was going to be super slick. Prince had four live electric guitars. There was more electric electronics than, you know, in a gall darn tower system in a large city.

Right. And it was just one of those things where it had to be super safe. The prince's dancers had six inch heels. Right? So a lot of things that were in and play that things could definitely have some bad things happen. Well, they made the call to Prince, right? So the director made the call to Prince, and they called Prince up ten minutes before halftime. They said, hey, we want to let you know about the risk. We want to let you know what's going on. If there's something that you want to pull the plug on or if there's something that you want to yank out, if you want to pull out right now, we understand.

And we by all means can do that. Said, are you okay? Prince said, yes, but I have one question. I said, of course. What? And he goes, can you make it rain harder? I was just like, oh, my gosh. It just said goosebumps throughout my body. Like, here's Prince playing in a monsoon in his one and only question to the director team in the Super bowl that they were ready to can it, and he says, can you make it rain harder? And so where are we going with this? Back to the Navy SeALs with the full benefit.

So there's going to be some things, you know, in your life, there's going to be some things in your life where, you know, maybe things aren't going the right way for you. Right. Or maybe there's some, some steps and obstacles in your way where ultimately maybe one through five turns out to be one through 20 because there's 15 more steps that naturally just got implemented or brought to your attention that you got to deal with. Right. And so where I just really want to take you to is this Navy Seal principle called full benefit.

So the next time something's going maybe a little haywire on what you thought was the intended path or the intended direction. And I just want you to think to yourself two things, 2007 Super Bowl Prince and number two, full benefit. Right. There's been so many things in my life where I thought it was zero to one or I thought the step was one to five. And I look at it in a different light now of, well, I'm just getting the full benefit of this. And I just think Prince did an unbelievable job of displaying exactly how maybe we should probably show up sometimes when adversity strikes or when there's an absolute monsoon at a 2007 Super bowl.

And Prince goes out and just absolutely kills his set. So think about that at your work. Think about that when maybe, you know, a project isn't going your way. Think about that. Maybe when a review goes in a different direction than what you thought. Think about that when maybe you guys are trying to open a new part of your business or have an innovative new project going underway with your company. Always think to yourself. Full benefit. Prince halftime 2007 have a new.