Quick Cut: S2E209 How Lou Holtz Coached Me at Augusta National

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Even the best coaches need little a bit of coaching themselves from time to time. In this case, Brian received priceless advice from top college football coach, Lou Holtz while playing golf at the world-renowned Augusta National Golf Club. While the trip was intended to lift Brian’s spirits after he lost his home and belongings, including his golf clubs, in the wildfires that tore through San Diego in 2007, things didn’t go according to plan. You’ll hear how tough words can bring out your best, the importance of perspective and why excuses never make up for a lack of practice. Most importantly, it’ll encourage you to ask yourself: What would your life look like if you took away some of the excuses?

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs.
0:07.0	Today we have a classic cut from our personal growth event, Mastermind Summit.
0:12.0	If you have never been to this event,
0:14.3	head to It's a Good Life.com slash MM
0:17.3	to book your seat at the last ever mastermind
0:20.6	this August.
0:21.6	Here's Brian.
0:29.8	I used to be a pretty good golfer as the kids got busier and life got busier I went from being a one handicap to like a whatever and playing twice a year. So lose after me all the time and I finally said okay let's do it. Let me just put it on the calendar I know this. Let's do it. Let's do it two weeks for the tournament. Good I'll bring my dad out from Ireland. Yeah, I'll be great.
0:43.0	Well, in the meantime, life goes on and I'm still catching up post-fire.
0:47.0	My golf clubs were in my Mercedes that burned to the ground.
0:50.0	I don't have a set of golf clubs.
0:52.0	Dermot says, hey, man, we've got we got to go golf and we got to go practice, we got to go this, I go
0:55.3	Durham, I went up to my eyeball.
0:56.8	So here it is, it's now two days before we go.
1:00.1	I have not hit a golf ball in two years. I do not own a set of golf clubs.
1:05.0	Dermer calls me, what are you going to do, whatever else, okay, and literally this is true as I'm standing here.
1:10.0	I go to Walmart at 11 o'clock at night and buy a set of golf clubs.
1:16.0	For those of you don't know golf that might not be the premier place to get them.
1:20.0	And Dermos like, what are you going to do? We're about to play the hardest golf course in the world.
1:25.2	And you haven't had a golf ball in two years and you haven't practiced. You haven't even... I said, here's my plan. I'm going to cram. I used to do this in college. So we get to the golf course.
1:36.0	I'm going to get up the following morning. I'm going to beat the balls for about two hours.
1:39.4	I'm going to find a little something to work with and I'll ride that all day.
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