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🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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“Ordinary people compare themselves to everybody else’s results. Extraordinary achievers compare themselves with their potential.” — Andy Andrew
What are the seven decisions you can make that will guarantee personal success? In this episode, recorded live at Buffini & Company The Peak Experience event, Brian talks to best-selling author and speaker Andy Andrews about his life. Andy describes how he discovered the seven decisions and principles that transformed and shaped his life and allowed him to impact thousands of people. He also discusses his new book, “The Bottom of the Pool.”
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Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“The key to success is working on the stuff that really matters to you.” — Brian Buffini
“Focus on the little things that really matter, not the little things that don’t.” — Brian Buffini
“I will persist until I succeed.” — Og Mandino
“When you’ve got something in your hands that always works, you figure out different ways to apply it.” — Andy Andrews
“Gravity worked long before the apple ever fell on Newton’s head.” — Andy Andrews
“These seven principles, once you dig into them, they all have a meaning and a bearing that is life altering.” — Andy Andrews
“Until you take responsibility for where you are, you have no basis for continuing.” — Andy Andrews
“Responsibility is about hope and control.” — Andy Andrews
“If you blame somebody else, there’s not a lot of hope there.” — Andy Andrews
“Change your thinking; change your choices.” — Andy Andrews
“Compete in a way that the competition doesn’t know there’s a game going on.” — Brian Buffini
“Ordinary people compare themselves to everybody else’s results. Extraordinary achievers compare themselves with their potential.” — Andy Andrews
“You get put into these pigeonholes and they become your own Shawshank prison.” — Brian Buffini
“The bottom of the pool is your fundamentals.” — Brian Buffini
“The foundations are key.” — Brian Buffini
“Advertising is the price you pay for not being extraordinary.” — Andy Andrews
“You can’t traditionally advertise to overcome bad word of mouth.” — Andy Andrews
“You can compete for business before people are even born!” — Andy Andrews
Mentioned in this episode:
"The Noticer" by Andy Andrews
"The Traveler’s Gift" by Andy Andrews
"The Bottom of the Pool" by Andy Andrews
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brian Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies |
0:20.0 | of success. |
0:21.0 | Today we have a special treat for you. |
0:23.0 | Brian interviewed a claimed author and speaker Andy Andrews on stage at a recent event, and |
0:28.0 | the episode Brian and Andy will cover how living counter-culturally can be the key to your success. |
0:34.0 | You'll also hear Brian mention Andy's new book, and it's out today, the book is called |
0:37.8 | The Bottom of the Pool, thinking beyond your boundaries to achieve extraordinary results. |
0:42.6 | You can pick it up anywhere great books are sold. |
0:45.2 | In the meantime, let's listen in. |
0:47.2 | The last couple days, some folks in here have been sharing some big time stuff and some |
0:51.0 | big time stories and where they've been and so on and so forth. |
0:53.5 | And you kind of mention just a fraction of your story, and I just think it would be great |
0:57.8 | if we just took a minute because there might be actually some people here or some folks |
1:01.0 | who are going to be listening who don't know kind of where Andy Andrews came from. |
1:04.4 | They've traveled her gift and this guy's been on all the morning shows and this and that |
1:08.9 | and this millions of books sold. |
1:11.4 | But maybe you know, maybe you don't know. |
1:12.9 | Do you guys know where Andy's story started? |
1:15.8 | So when he's 19 years of age and there's more before that obviously, but when he's 19 years |
1:20.1 | of age, his mom is 41 and she dies a cancer. |
1:24.4 | Just a couple months later, his dad who's 44, is killed in a car wreck. |
1:30.7 | He is 19, he is by himself. |
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