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15 Minutes to Freedom

E283 - Digging Like A Dog | Why Everyone And Everything Needs A Purpose

15 Minutes to Freedom

Ryan Niddel

Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals, Business, Society & Culture

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

While attending a conference this past week, one of the speakers spoke about his labradors. He said that when labradors don’t have a purpose they default to digging holes. Immediately this reminded me about a very situation line of thought our dog trainer shared with us regarding our pit bulls. What’s crazy to me is how this idea relates to all of us, myself included. When we live life without a purpose, we tend to find ourselves digging ditches we can’t get out of. On the other hand, when we have a mission to strive for we can build mountains. Are you digging holes or are you building?
Questions, comments, requests? Feel free to contact me at ryan@lifeoptimizationgroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

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0:00.0

The This is

0:19.7

This is 15 minutes of freedom. I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is digging like a dog.

0:25.0

In today's episode, I want to share with you one of the most impactful lessons I learned from our dog trainer

0:30.0

who trained Zeus and Roman my two pit bulls.

0:37.0

So this story admittedly comes from

0:41.0

something that Badros shared at Ryan Moran's

0:46.5

Capitalism Conference that I've been at for the past three days. As I'm sitting in the crowd, myself and 500 other people, consuming content, getting to know

0:52.2

each other, networking,

0:53.0

master mining, all the things that you do at an event.

0:55.0

A gentleman named Bedros hops up on the stage and is sharing some impactful things.

1:01.0

And he's sharing a story about dogs having purpose and it

1:08.2

instantly triggers in my mind some things that my trainer, our trainer, Lindsay and I trainer for Zeus and Roman shared with us.

1:17.4

So Zeus is our pit bull that has cancer, right?

1:21.8

Regretfully we had him at the vet today he's on his I can't

1:26.2

say last round of chemo kind of like the last shot Hail Mary fourth quarter of being

1:31.4

able to provide him some sort of chance at relief of his cancer

1:35.2

burden. The likelihood of that working is very, very slim. Conservatively we have

1:41.5

four weeks left with Zeus aggressively on the far side maybe we have 12 weeks.

1:47.0

Right? Like we're cherishing the time we have but we realize it's coming to an end.

1:51.0

Zeus has been the most loving respectful he listened he's a great pit bull our

1:57.4

little brown guy Roman who I referred to as the emperor not so much right the emperor has a very specific way about him his own personality

2:06.7

he's hard-headed he's stubborn and so we had to get dog trainers in the house.

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