Taco Tuesday Talk: With Great Change, Comes Great Adjustment.

Well, happy Taco Tuesday to you and yours. Hope everybody's doing well. We're just going to do a little live here, impromptu live. Like I said, Happy Tuesday, you and yours. It's good to be here. It's good to be seen. It's good to show up. Davis, good to see you, man. Thanks for participating. I wanted to share a story that I think everybody can resonate with. So for those non basketball players in this world, there's one of the greatest basketball players of all time. His name is Kobe Bryant, right?

Kobe Bean Bryant. And sweet. Kobe is known as one of the greatest workers that has ever played. He always says like, I didn't have the biggest vertical, I didn't have the biggest hands, I didn't have the most athletic, God given ability, but I had his work ethic. And so, you know, he had this insane work ethic for those individuals that don't know, right? So he was a 4am Practice one, 6am Practice two. I love it. The mad hill says Kobe the goat. He sure is. Then he would always take a break and then he would do it again, right?

And so he would go to a 2 o' clock workout and a 6 o' clock workout. It was just how he rolled, right? And so somebody asked him like, well, how long did you do that? He's like, well, 20 years, right? So 20 years. He always did this. But what's interesting was the perspective of when he would go, you know, with the guys. So now he's with the guys, he's with all of his teammates and they would be in some city like Miami or Chicago and you know, all the guys would be going out. One time they riled him and they're like, well you know, Kobe, why don't you come?

And he's like, it's not my kind of party. He's like, just come. So you know, one of the guys convinced Kobe to come to his party, right? So he goes out, he goes out all night. He's out out doing what individuals probably shouldn't be doing, right? He's going to party at south beach and standing out night late getting bottle service. He's hanging out with all the guys, he's doing their thing. So they get back in about 3am, 4am in the morning and he knocks on all their doors at five o', clock, six o' clock in the morning.

This is all a true story. He's knocking on all their doors and he goes, I partied with you, now you party with me, right? So I'm coming to your Party. You want me to show up with your party? Now you're coming to mine. And my party is the workout. So at six o', clock, everybody's up. They're probably not feeling their best. Kobe's different practices does the whole thing goes through his 6:00am does his 10:00am does the thing. This is all a true story. And so you guys can read about it. Research, if you want to read it in the Mamba mentality book, it's outstanding.

But what I'm trying to tell you is when you start to switch the narrative of your norms, of your change, when you change and you start to see your change come through and you start to do things different, let me tell you, you're gonna stick out like a sore thumb. You're gonna stick out like an incredible sore thumb. When you start to say, you know, I'm not gonna go out with my buddies tonight. I'm gonna stay in and I'm gonna go on the treadmill and I'm gonna get that 5k in. You know what I'm gonna do on Friday night?

I'm gonna stay in and I'm gonna sleep and I'm gonna rest. I'm gonna get after it tomorrow morning or I'm gonna work on that business idea, or I'm gonna. Or I'm gonna play chess against a friend, or I'm gonna go to a movie, you know, Monday afternoon with some buddies or whatever that is, right? And you change. You change. Like, you're starting to see the change. And what I'm gonna tell you is this. There will be some times where people don't even like you. Like, where people, like, legitimately don't like who you are.

Now, I'll give you an example. When I quit drinking, you know, call it almost six years ago, you know, I'll never forget, you know, meeting with a couple individuals and the response was like, they literally said this to me. They're like, luke, you're no fun anymore. And to be frank, right, Like, I think I'm funny, I think I'm a good time. I think all that. But at the end of the day, like, right, I don't fit in to the old way of my life. Like, I'm ready to move forward. I'm ready for change. I'm ready to see the next thing through.

I'm like, my text messages tonight are to a gentleman that's a participating with Cadre. His name is Jason Lennox. We're Texting each other 1776 miles walking around Minnesota, 250 year, 250 years of, you know, our country's independence. This is the year that's celebrating it. Let's do 1776 for 250. 250 years. Like, how amazing at this 1776 constitution, right? Back in the day, this is not my life. Like, that was not something that drove me. Happiness and joy and love was talking about these big challenges and things I want to do.

But naturally you're going to start gravitating to your people that do, right? Like the Matt Hill. It's lonely at first, then your new people show up. That's exactly right on the money. That is exactly what? 100% right on the money. You nailed it. And when you start to shift your narrative and shift your dynamics, all of a sudden the people that, that you dream of wanting to be involved in will just show up. They will be there. A Gerber 42 have to shed the old to welcome the new and what's possible.

D*** right. I'm so with you. Sorry, I got a little bit of a nose thing there. Davis Clark says. D***. But you know, like, really, like that is the people I wanna surround myself with. I wanna surround myself with people that are the go getters, that are the change agents in this world that want to do things differently, that want to go hang out in a sauna on Tuesday nights and connect and talk about business and changing the world and doing different things and putting yourself in positions to be able to do that, right?

So the next thing that you start to shift, the next thing that you start to shift in your life, watch how things will change drastically for you and the people around you. So when you start to make change and when you start to make impact and you start to be different and be the change you want to be. D*** right. But when you start to do these things, watch your world change. Gonna go run through a wall. Oh my gosh, the mad hill. He makes me so happy right now. Gonna go run through a wall right now.

But you know, like one of one other example, if you told me eight to 10 years ago that I would have ran a half marathon for almost four consecutive years, every single weekend on either Saturday or on Sunday. Except one, I missed one on Covid. And. But if you, if you would have told me that eight years ago, I'd said not only are you full of s***, there's no way that's possible, like to be able to do that to. To bang out a half. Half marathon every single weekend for four consecutive years, I'd be like, there's no way.

And I did it like I did it every single weekend. It was my litmus test. I'm like, let's go, let's get back on the tread. Let's get run outside. Let's, let's do the thing. Four consecutive years of a half marathon, literally every single weekend. And then back to like finding your people. You find those individuals then that are going to be hanging around you, showing up with you, joining the all day running company, participating and watching those people. And then all of a sudden I'm like, what are you doing?

You're running that in a day, you know, like the Cam Haines is of the world, et cetera. And I'm not here saying everybody's got to get on the tread and go bang out 30 mil. That's not what I mean. What I'm saying is small incremental changes here. I'll give you the most classic example at work. Ready for this? Okay, so you're normally going out for a lunch. You're going out with a group of individuals. And this group usually s*** talks. Either your work or other people, right? So they, they, they're negative, they talk something bad, they say something bad, they say something bad about others, they, they say something bad about the company, they say something bad about the organization.

And for a while you've always been the pile on person, right? Like, yeah, I know that's Sally, you know, or yeah, I know that Tommy, you know, he's sure is something. Or yeah, this organization is something else, right? Go to that group. Here's my challenge for you. Go to that group with those people, these three or four folks, these five or six people that normally get together, have lunch, do the thing, have a cup of coffee and be different, Be different. And watch, watch what will happen. You will be alienated in less than that meeting if you come there and you say, okay, so let's say, let's use this example.

I work at General Mills and I'm at General Mills. And we go around, we're like, can you believe what they did to the health insurance? And then what you say is, yeah, you know, I think that's a really great, great decision that they, they, they switched our health insurance. And I think it's actually going to be a very positive thing for change for us. Watch the look of the other people around, around that table and see how that goes over. That will be an absolute lead balloon. It will be dead on arrival.

So when you start to change your norms, you even at the perspective of these baseline ones to the greatest norm that you can possibly have. You're going to see monumental changes in responses and how people show up in the change that's being mentioned in the moment. So a Gerber said, been in that exact spot. So you know exactly what I'm talking about. So it's good stuff. Well, you guys have a wonderful night. My challenge to you is. My challenge to you is this. Do something just a little bit different than you've been doing your normal and watch to see what happens with J.

You know, as they say, like, you know, with, you know, great change, or, excuse me, with oh, my God, why am I drawing a blank? With. With great something comes great responsibility. Why am I drawing a blank? Guys, I'm so sorry. But at any rate, it's the same thing with great change. With. With great change comes an abundance of changes with the human beings and the relationships you have, and be prepared for it. That's all I gotta say. So and if somebody remembers the quote, I think it's a Lincoln quote.

With great blank comes great blank with grape there. Oh, my God. It's one of those days. I can't believe I forgot it. But at any rate, thank you for filling me in there, guys. So when you start to make those moments and you start to make those changes, just watch what happens. All right, so I'm sending love to you. I'm sending love to yours. Thanks, everybody for showing up. It meant a lot for me to share the story. I hope it's something that matters. Oh, my gosh. Animeo says, Spider Man. That's good stuff.

We. But I look at, like, I'm sorry, I just. Now I'm on this. Now I'm on a habit, right? If I even, like, start, like, juicing at my house, I'm just using this perspective. If I start juicing at my house, I know my wife will be supportive of it, but she's gonna be like, why are you doing that? You know, like, why are you doing that? Like, why are you juicing? And the reality is, cause I want to. I want to try something different. It's the same thing with fasting. Like, I did this fast one day, and, you know, I did this.

This fast thing where it's like, all right, I'm going to stop eating on Friday night. Or I think it was Saturday. I'm going to stop eating Friday or Saturday, and I'm just going to go to Monday and just see what happens, right? So it's just another example of these small changes. And however many times the response was, well, I haven't done that in a while or, you know. You know, my goodness, I can't imagine going two straight days without it. It's like, I'm not looking for that. It's just a statement, like, this is what I'm doing.

This is what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. So make some big changes, See what happens. I love you guys. Have a wonderful night. Thanks for showing up. This is what this is all about. This is our little living room. Not a living room. It's almost like this little foyer. It's a little foyer spot in the. In the house here that I always. We. We actually set up a pickleball court here. Can you believe that? Like this old 1886 home. And we had a little. We had a little pickleball court in there so the kids would be able to bang some pickleballs around until we set up the.

Until we set up the garage with our kind of workout spots. So you guys take care. Peace be with you. Thanks again. Great change comes. Great responsibility. I will not mess that up again, I promise. Peace. Bye. Bye.