Stop Sitting in The Passenger Seat of Your Own Life

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is a classic segment from GaryVeeTV! Too many people are unhappy with where they are in life but are not doing anything about it. They think that just by waiting and dwelling on what is wrong, it will just go away on its own. The reality is that you are in control of your life. If you don't like something, there is a 99% chance you can fix it if you take the initiative!

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0:00.0	This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.
0:05.0	You're in control. Like, you want positive people? Go gather them. You throw the party.
0:11.5	You liked some party that doesn't exist anymore? Great! Go and fucking throw your own party.
0:17.0	We're in fucking control out here. You're in fucking control out here.
0:21.0	Over the last three years, I did... Basically, I learned my skills. I got some degrees because I wanted to work for a big brand.
0:31.0	And after that, I got an internship with one of the biggest brands in the world.
0:36.0	And I got the opportunity to work for them, which was amazing.
0:39.0	And I basically said, well, I want to break the door in, right? I have to put into the door now.
0:44.0	So I want to go in. And I worked my ass off to get there. And there were a lot of opportunities opening up to the end of my internship.
0:53.0	But right around that time, Corona broke loose.
0:57.0	So the opportunity is finished. And now I'm living in my current space.
1:02.0	Basically, again, with 24, which is fine. So I said, let me lean into my personal brand because I'm into fitness.
1:10.0	I've been training for like eight years, a little bit over that. And I'm also a coach.
1:15.0	So I said, well, I'm going to develop my brand a little bit and push that on Instagram and wherever because I'm just in it.
1:21.0	But I catch myself looking back because I don't want to miss out on the corporate world as well because I love that as well.
1:28.0	I met so many amazing people. So it's like, how can I combine that?
1:33.0	Easily. Like, you know, as soon as we get to some sort of normalcy and corporations are hiring again, which they will, you can apply for a job or another internship and be right back there.
1:46.0	Like this is, this is a moment in time. And the beauty for you is you're so young, you have your entire life in front of you.
1:53.0	And then if you want to do the fitness stuff in your personal brand, you can do that after hours and on weekends. And then you're, and the other thing is you may change your mind in three years or six years.
2:05.0	Yeah, true.
2:06.0	The biggest issue that I see out there is that we don't put changing your mind on a pedestal.
2:11.0	I believe that changing my mind is my greatest strength as an operator.
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