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Ep 137 You're Holding Yourself Back - We Are Driven Podcast - Quick Hit
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Arun describes how he recently realized he was holding himself back and shows you how you might be doing the same.
Arun "The Driver" Coumar is an automotive entrepreneur, car enthusiast, and motivator, CEO of Driven Automotive Companies. Shop apparel, Join the Driven Network: wearedriven.co
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Transcript
00:00:00
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Welcome to the We Are Driven podcast episode 137. My name is Arun Kumar and I am the driver. And this is a quick hit. I was reminded this past week about what it means to take action in spite of yourself. What do I mean by that? I mean that you and your beliefs are the only reason you are not taking action right this second towards achieving your goals.
00:00:39
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Now, how was I reminded of this? I had an opportunity come up recently or really a couple of opportunities to divert my time in my day to day operating energy away from running my single driven auto care location. If you don't know, I'm building a billion dollar automotive service brand, which means that I will need to expand into several hundred automotive repair facilities over the course of building this business. But right now I have one location. I'm coming up on my first year in business and we're doing OK. We've had plenty of ups and downs. So if you want to go see more of what those ups and downs are, go check out Driven Diary on YouTube.
00:01:29
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Now, I had an opportunity to divert my attention from this single location. I've hired three different people to be in charge of running the shop day to day so that I could be enabled and empowered to go divert my energy and place it towards further growing the business through marketing, through more acquisitions, and through general business strategy. But in each of those occasions where I've hired someone, it has not worked out. It has not worked out. I've let go of every single one of them. However, right when I took over this business a little under a year ago, I knew who I should hire for this position. I knew I had one person in mind.
00:02:26
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And it took me 11 months to go make that person a job offer. 11 months because I knew it would be uncomfortable. I knew it would be a very, very direct attack on another business by going and making this guy an offer. And now he hasn't accepted yet. So that's about all I'll say about that specific event. But my point is this, I had two big, very big opportunities come up where I knew I could focus my efforts in a specific area and begin to move significantly closer to my goals. If I took my attention away from ah running the day-to-day of this shot,
00:03:20
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But I was afraid to do that because I've been burned three times already in the last year. I was afraid to do that. Even though I knew the logical next step I should take and I have known it for a year. And despite the fact that I have known it for a year, here I sit having not made the move that I knew I needed to make. But what convinced me to make the move was staring these two giant opportunities in the face and realizing exactly what I needed to do. And when I realized exactly what I needed to do, I realized that that thing was something I've known for a goddamn year.
00:04:03
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I put it off for a year. How much further along could I be if I wasn't blockading my brain with fear, with doubt, with thinking that I might know better than my gut?
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You might have this problem too. You might be currently selling yourself a bill of goods that's preventing you from doing exactly what you need to do. What is that thing?
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What is that thing? What are you doing right now that you shouldn't be doing? What should you be doing right now that you aren't doing?
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What's it going to take for you to recognize those things and take action on them right fucking now? What's it going to take? What are you going to do?
00:05:02
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I hope you realize what those things are after listening to this five minutes. And I hope you can go out there, get after it, continue succeeding to achieve your goals and stay driven.