This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for Potters Everywhere.

It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Howdy, howdy, ola and hello, and welcome to episode number 771 of the potters cast. I am having a pretty

decent day today because I'm getting stuff done, making progress in life, getting bids for the

house, putting the house back together after the

water damage. And I got to tell you, it's a lot of fun working with insurance companies. So

much fun. Well, listen, a little bit of a conversation here that's got a bit of depth. And I

really appreciated this. My guest today, Doug Rubenstein.

And he said this one thing that I really thought was great. He said,

it's not going to happen at me. And I love that kind of an attitude of where things don't just happen because

you're alive. You know, you kind of got to, you've got to make plans for things and you've got to

organize and you've got to, you can be the instigator as to why things happen instead of waiting for things

to happen. In fact, you know, I'll just be honest with you. And I think that this is probably

true for much of my life is that I have been a person who has that circumstances decide some of my life choices. That's not really always the

best thing. So I'm trying to be better at it. It's like, who was that? That was, I think it was

Lincoln that said, Abraham Lincoln, I think it was Lincoln that said the best way to predict

the future is to create it. And I think that there's something to be said about having that

drive to make things happen. So anyhow, the point is, is that when Doug and I talked about it,

I don't, you know, we, we had some depths in the conversation, but then we also talked about this and, and answering questions like, how do you plan and live things when, when life is so unpredictable, and then he gives some good insights on it.

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