I Wish I Knew This Earlier... - 064
Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show
Bedros Keuilian
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Which quotes should entrepreneurs live by? In this episode, Bedros Keuilian and Craig Ballantyne extract the wisdom out of their favorite quotes, both for business and for life. Watch or listen now to discover why your business’s problems might come down to your habits, and why taking small action alleviates anxiety every time. Get your notepads out—this is an episode you won’t want to miss.
“Leadership is always the problem, leadership is always the solution.” - Bedros Keuilian
Here’s what you’ll discover:
2:45 - Why it’s true that “how you do anything is how you do everything”.
4:56 - Why adding structure to your life actually brings you more freedom and purpose.
7:38 - Why you need to “man up” and become the leader your business is begging you to be.
10:12 - Why action minimizes your stress and anxiety levels.
19:55 - When to give up, and when to push passed the headaches and problems you face.
“Action beats anxiety, and work beats worry.” - Craig Ballantyne
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | No one would ever think that fixing their life |
| 0:02.2 | starts with making their bed or cleaning out their car. |
| 0:04.6 | But you can go back to a quote like that |
| 0:06.1 | that you use as an anchor and get your life back in order, |
| 0:10.0 | get your business, your health, your finances back in order. And what is your favorite quote? |
| 0:32.6 | My favorite quote is from a guy named Doug. |
| 0:34.8 | He was my supervisor at Disneyland, |
| 0:36.6 | and he was someone I looked up to. |
| 0:38.6 | And his quote was, circumstance does not change responsibility. |
| 0:43.0 | And the reason he told me this is because one day I was a fry cook at Disneyland, |
| 0:47.5 | electric parades going on, the restaurant that I worked in was packed, packed. |
| 0:51.5 | And of course I showed up a few minutes late and I let down everybody in the kitchen |
| 0:55.0 | because I had a very critical role working the board and I was trying to come up with all these |
| 0:58.9 | excuses and reasons and Doug is this giant six foot four heavy-set guy and he goes, you know what, |
| 1:05.0 | Bedros, circumstance does not change responsibility. |
| 1:08.0 | And in that moment I knew that I had a responsibility to my job and those guys and I let them down no matter the circumstance. |
| 1:16.1 | So that's my favorite quote. |
| 1:17.1 | What about yours? |
| 1:18.1 | Mine is a classic from Jim Roan, which is you're the average of the five people that you spend the most time with and listen this is true this is Harvard research proven |
| 1:26.7 | So there's there's a guy at Harvard and he's proven that if you hang around people that smoke you have a greater chance of becoming a smoker |
| 1:32.1 | If you're if you hang around people that are overweight you have a greater chance of becoming a smoker. |
| 1:32.5 | If you hang around people that are overweight, |
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