Leave it ALL Better than You Find It // Spartan STAND 013

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We tend to all be able to appreciate what ‘leaving something better than you found it’ means in a physical sense. Picking up after yourself, picking up trash off the ground, leaving the surroundings a little nicer than when you arrived.

Now, the mark of really appreciating this is how you apply this to relationships, feelings, and some of the less observable, measurable imports in life/community.

And the great stretch exercise is how you apply it to yourself each and every day.

LESSONS:
Do one thing in every situation to leave your physical environment just a little better than when you arrive
Do one thing in every situation to leave a stranger or friend just a little better off than you found them
Don’t forget about yourself - one thing each and every day to improve you
It doesn’t matter how small or trivial, sometimes the most trite can have the greatest impetus for growth

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Producer: Marion Abrams, Madmotion,llc.
Host: Brian “tosh” Chontosh
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Today I want to talk to you about leaving it better than you found it.
0:03.3	Many of you might be aware of some of the other work I've done on other other
0:11.8	podcasts or my writing and a theme that I
0:14.6	constantly talk about because it's always on my mind is leaving it better than
0:19.7	you found it. I was introduced to this back early in the military careers right at boot camp even and it was always around this thing
0:27.6	Leave it better than you found it when we left the classroom you pushed your chairs in, you picked up the trash, you wiped things down, leave it
0:35.9	better than you found it.
0:36.9	When you went to the rifle range and you had to police call and pick up brass off the
0:40.3	ground, you always wanted to leave your environment better than you found it.
0:44.3	It was a way of showing respect.
0:47.3	Ultimately I think it was just the way of Marine Corps getting cheap labor and not having to pay maintenance
0:51.0	crews, but it taught you like accountability
0:55.0	for your influence or a fact or your mark
0:59.1	or your footprint on a space, right?
1:03.2	I have a saying, there's a saying in the boating community,
1:05.5	you know, you're responsible for your wake.
1:07.6	And I think those are very, very similar.
1:09.2	So leaving it better than you found it for me,
1:12.1	if we were to start at the basic level is when I walk into a room I make
1:17.2	sure hey the lights were on when I got there I'm going to think that maybe maybe
1:21.1	I could turn the lights off or maybe the lights were on for a reason or if I walk into a
1:26.7	bathroom and I see you know how we walk into the bathrooms and the paper towel stuff is all over the
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