Hello, everyone. It's Brian Underwood.

You know, today my outcome is just to kind of share with you a little bit of philosophy

and perspective on winning or success. And, you know, throughout my 27 years in business

and as an entrepreneur, one of the things that I think I've learned and I always see as people

that get so zealous and super excited about success.

And a lot of people want success overnight.

And I think that it's important for all of us to realize that, you know, anything that has value is going to take effort and sacrifice.

And for a lot of times, for people that are able to achieve success before they're ready,

that success can break them.

And I had a great learning lesson several years ago.

I had an opportunity to spend some time with TD Jakes.

And the time I was spending with him.

He was talking about the weight of winning, the weight of success.

And he used an analogy that I'll never forget.

I'd love to share it with you.

And one of the things that he talked about was that, you know, as we build ourselves,

you know, whether it's through our skill sets, as well as our

experience, we're building ourselves a foundation to be able to carry success. And success has weight.

So I've always said, be careful what you hope for because if that success comes fast and furious

and you can't carry it,

then it can actually send you into a negative spin, right?

Or create negative momentum.

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