You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about

the topic, fix the roof while the sun is shining. Don't wait for it to leak.

Don't wait for it to cave in. This is actually a paraphrase of a JFK quote. He said the best time

to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. And let me explain what I mean here. It's somewhat

obvious. But I really believe our natural tendency in life overall is to wait. We wait for something bad to happen before we make a change.

We wait for the bottom to fall out before we start making better decisions. We wait for the

heart attack before we start to maybe take care of our bodies or we wait for the spouse to

walk out before we start making life less about

ourself and focusing a little more on balance and making it about the spouse. Or we wait until

we're passed over or fired again. Before we make changes, we need to improve our habits,

our attitude, our skills, our knowledge in the workplace. The whole point here is

don't wait while you're doing well. You've heard me say this before. Don't just sit on the

ball and wait for something bad to happen in order to make you change or risk or tweak or improve

or attack. Do it while things are going well so you can maintain and leverage that momentum.

And really, when you think about those eight key traits, we talk about in pretty much every episode,

I believe I could say every episode, the eight key unstoppable traits. I call them the unstoppable

eight that the game changer is bringing to the table more often than the playmaker or the caretaker or the undertaker. And if you've read my book Unstoppable or if you've listened to many of these episodes, you know what I'm talking about, the four different performance mindsets in anything. Undertaker, caretaker, playmaker, game changer. Well, the game changer is more consistently bringing. What are they? Effort, energy, enthusiasm, excellence, passion, attitude, focus, and integrity.

Well, here's what they're not doing. They're not waiting for something bad to happen to start bringing more

energy or applying more effort or start to live with more integrity. The game changer, at least they

should be understanding that the best time to bring more of those things is while things are going well, so they keep going well.

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