Mini: Accountablility // Spartan WAY 52
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Spartan Way host Zach Even-Esh says: I was 19 years old working in a hospital fitness center. I came across a sign that STILL influences me and inspires me to this day! Watch the video so you can learn from this lesson I learned 20+ years ago!
LESSONS:
Often times simplicity is more powerful than complexity.
Take accountability for things. Did you open it? Then close it?
Did you make a mess? Leave crumbs behind? Clean it.
Did you break it? Then you must fix it and / or replace it.
Did you use it? Return better than you found it!
LINKS:
More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com
Read “The Spartan Way” https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book
SUBSCRIBE:
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Zach’s STRONG Life Podcast https://apple.co/2vFaCv1
CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2019 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Spartans, in today's episode I want to talk to you about a sign I saw when I was 19 years old |
| 0:06.7 | that I'm still thinking about to this day. |
| 0:08.8 | Spartans welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Up |
| 0:14.8 | podcast I'm coming to you from beautiful West Point New York we've got a Spartan |
| 0:19.6 | race that's about to happen right down the street and in this episode I've got an awesome |
| 0:24.0 | story for you. You see when I was 19 years old I saw a sign that was hanging up in a |
| 0:29.4 | kitchen outside of a fitness center that I worked at in a hospital and this is what the sign said. |
| 0:36.0 | If you open it, close it. If you use it, return it. If you break it, fix it. |
| 0:42.0 | Three simple things that have got... If you break it, fix it. |
| 0:43.0 | Three simple things that have got me fired up to this day. |
| 0:46.0 | I use that rule in my house. |
| 0:48.0 | I use that rule at my gyms and I use it in life. |
| 0:53.2 | And it's something that I want you to think about in a day and age where we try to make things |
| 0:58.2 | very complex. |
| 0:59.2 | We're afraid that if something is simple that it can't be so affected. |
| 1:03.2 | There needs to be some sort of a hack or some sort of more |
| 1:06.9 | complexity behind it, but the truth of the matter is |
| 1:11.0 | simplicity wins. So I want to repeat that sign one more time if you |
| 1:15.2 | open it close it so if you're opening up cabinets somewhere you close it if you make |
| 1:20.6 | a mess if something is dirty even if you didn't make that mess, go ahead and clean it up. |
| 1:26.4 | And then if you break something, you have to find a way to fix it. |
| 1:30.0 | If you don't know how to fix it, then you must replace it or just find a way to make it happen. |
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