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Do you remember Ferris Bueller?

More importantly, do you remember his sister?

Remember before she ran off with that dude from Roadhouse and Point Break?

She was all pissy and mad that Ferris was avoiding school and everybody was rallying around him and he was cheating the system

and it just wasn't fair and poor her.

She was all just pouty, stinky face the whole time.

When I work with certain coaches, when I work with certain entrepreneurs, they can get into this funk when they start to compare themselves to others. They get into this place of, it's not fair. Why is that guy doing so much

better than me? Why is he having success? Boo-hoo. Or they'll go into another place where it's like,

oh, I'm terrible. They turn the blade on themselves. I'm terrible. I must be on the wrong path.

And nobody likes me.

That's the problem right there is that they're trying to be liked.

Chances are they're focusing on their business as if they're still in high school playing some popularity game.

They're thinking that selfies or quotes from some Shakespeare play or reposting somebody

else's article or taking a picture of their dinner

is going to translate into new business opportunities. They're thinking that likes are a substitute

for service. But the bottom line is if they're not creating new business, then they're not

serving. They're doing certain things that are keeping them in what I like to call the professional

friend zone.

We interrupt this program to let you know if you want to hear about trips embarrassing years spent in the professional friend zone.

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