Hey, everyone. This is Brian Underwood. And on the podcast today, I'm going to give you a life lesson that

was taught to me by a mentor of mine. And he was a mentor to a lot of young people. He was one of the

youngest managers for Procter & Gamble as they took the Colgate brand, the toothpaste, out to the marketplace.

And then he became, you know, one of the most successful entrepreneurs that I personally knew.

And one of the most powerful men in telecommunications is the deregulation of telecom hit in the 90s.

He thrived during that time.

And this is a lesson that I can tell you if you get it, it'll shift your awareness and your discipline about focused on being around the right people, right?

And the power of peer group, the power of proximity.

And most importantly, how powerful our own energy is in keeping to our own standard. And so, you know,

it really gives me huge perspective because this was just one of many lessons that he taught me.

And I want to share that with you guys. So I think mindset has so much to do with where we're going to go and how we get there.

More than mindset, I think that you have to have the right mindset to have the right attitude.

And I'll never forget one of the first quotes I learned when I was a little kid is attitude determines your altitude.

Right.

So I always measure how high that you can fly based on how good your attitude is. And, you know, the reality is

that whenever you're dealing with people, you have to be very aware of not taking on the

personalities of the people you're around or making sure that you want to take on their attitude

as well, because attitudes are

contagious and i'll never forget a mentor of mine i had the opportunity to work with he was one of

the uh youngest managers for proctor and gamble he actually introduced colgate uh to the marketplace

that was now when he was younger and uh he was running a couple hundred

million dollar a year uh telecommunications business and i worked for him and i would be out on

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