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15 Minutes to Freedom

E58 The Easy Thing is Never the Right Thing

15 Minutes to Freedom

Ryan Niddel

Personal Journals, Motivational, Entrepreneurship, Business, Body, Meditation, Society & Culture, Relationships, Journal

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It takes time and effort to achieve anything in life. Very rarely (if ever) is the right thing the easy thing. Like everyone else, I had to learn this lesson the hard way. After having some quick and easy success in business, I fell into a trap. Listen to see how I got lulled into believing that success would come easy and how I’ve used the last several years to correct my behavior.

Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you.

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This is the

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15 minutes of freedom.

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This is 15 minutes of freedom.

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I'm your host Ryan Naidel and today's episode is the easy thing is almost never the right thing.

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So there's few rules in life that I find to be undoubtedly true no matter where you're at.

0:25.1

And there's none that are much more impactful to me than if something is easy, it's almost

0:30.7

never right. That applies to me in almost every aspect of life,

0:35.0

but today it's most relevant in business.

0:38.0

You know, I hadn't created a life and a situational set of ethics that were bound around what was easy.

0:50.1

How could I make an easy buck?

0:56.0

You know, I jumped into, and obviously who doesn't want to make an easy buck? None of us want to work tirelessly for years at a time before we obtain success.

1:02.0

We all want it right now. I mean that's our society.

1:04.1

That's how I'm wired. That's how I believe you're wired. And that is life as a whole.

1:08.5

But that's a story that we're in control of. So my entire world shifted when I took a step from running automotive

1:14.6

dealerships in Columbus, Ohio, high-end, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls-Royce

1:18.8

where your sales buying cycle would be six months to a year. You know you were cultivating these

1:23.7

customers and these clients and these relationships for years at a time and the

1:28.3

reason that was is if a very affluent client wanted to come in and buy a

1:31.8

Ferrari it wasn't because that he didn't have the money.

1:37.1

It was because Ferrari physically wouldn't manufacture the car for sometimes as many as

1:40.5

two or three years.

1:42.0

But there were still money in-house.

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