ITL115: Are You Attracting Opportunity...or Repelling It?
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2014
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What is it about you that other people would change if they could?
- I’m not saying we should live our lives according to other people.
- What I am saying is if you look at your life, business, family, and want people to believe what you believe, it really helps if they like you a little bit.
What if 25% of people were not comfortable with swearing? If you’re a business person, would you be okay with having 25% less business just because of the way you talk?
- I had a friend who wanted to quit cursing around his boys.
- He decided that he would pay a quarter every time he did.
- It made him more aware of his words.
The other day one of my boys had a look on his face, and I could tell something was wrong. I asked:
- Can you do anything about it?
- Since you can’t do anything about it, how are you going to deal with it?
- Since you can see an end to it, you can either put a smile on your face or walk around looking sad for the next two weeks.
- What I’m trying to do is not just tell him what to do, but explain why this is something that he needs to learn.
People can sense when something is wrong, but most people aren’t going to say anything to you.
- When you’re older, this can be something that affects you getting hired, promoted, or given new opportunities.
People will never change long term just because you say so. They will change long term when you…
- Provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt of what’s in it for them.
Back in the ‘80s when I was doing comedy, I was booking more shows than just about anybody, and was even given the award as campus entertainer of the year.
- I’m not saying this is brag on myself, because I know I was not the funniest comedian.
- The difference was that, before and after the shows, I hung out with the students who were booking me and developed friendly relationships with them.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:09.9 | Now here's your host. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.3 | I am your temporary host, David Loy. |
| 0:19.0 | Andy, welcome. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, I'm glad to be here, David. I'm glad you're here. So, Robert, still having voice problems. Yes, but... And we're hoping that that |
| 0:27.9 | solidifies itself at some point soon, but I am more than happy to be here. And more than anything, we're happy that you're here, Andy. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, I am excited and thanks for being here. |
| 0:37.8 | I love talking to you. |
| 0:38.7 | We'll put Robert on this 24-hour gargling program. |
| 0:41.4 | Maybe he'll come through. |
| 0:43.0 | But you know what? |
| 0:43.7 | I enjoy talking to you. |
| 0:45.4 | And so we may just fire Robert from the podcast. |
| 0:52.8 | Not really, but, you know, I started to say I'm just kind of scaring him, but |
| 0:57.4 | he, you know, he wouldn't be scared. |
| 0:59.1 | No, yeah, not at all. Well, and let me go ahead and be the first to say, happy new year. |
| 1:04.3 | Oh, man, happy new year to you. We're already having a great one and just very excited about |
| 1:09.1 | everything going on. And this is a chance to reboot. |
| 1:14.3 | You know, every year we can reboot our lives. We can start again. I read something by a friend |
| 1:20.3 | of mine the other day who said that we can take off our old self, just like we take off dirty clothes. You know, at the end of the day, you choose to take off our old self just like we take off dirty clothes. You know, you at the end of the day, |
| 1:30.2 | you choose to take off those clothes and not put them back on again until they have been changed, |
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