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Speaker: What do you call an underground group of solar professionals on a mission to create a more sustainable world?
Speaker: We call ourselves solopreneurs.
Speaker: And while some might call us crazy, foolish, and dissatisfied with the status quo, we're the ones taking action to create a better future for ourselves and the world.
Speaker: Solopreneur is dedicated to give you, the solar professional, the tools, skills, technology, and mentorship to take the industry by storm and sell more solar with less effort.
Speaker: We are solopreneurs and this is our story.
Speaker: Listen, being a top solo pro is not easy, if you can't tell already.
Speaker: You're gonna have to make a lot of sacrifices.
Speaker: You're gonna have to cut some things out.
Speaker: But one of the most difficult changes most people, most students of mine have is this, their environment.
Speaker: Realizing that people like friends that they've hung out with their entire life, family members, those social media groups they're a part of, those communities they're a part of, right?
Speaker: Those junk food that they're eating,
Speaker: bad material they're watching, news that they're watching, things like this have such a significant impact on you, you have to be laser focused and aware of them.
Speaker: And the more you can eliminate, the more that you can surround yourself with people that are conducive with your goal of making 100 grand.
Speaker: They're making 100 grand.
Speaker: They're making 250.
Speaker: They're making half a million a year.
Speaker: If you can hang around those people,
Speaker: your likelihood of success goes up significantly.
Speaker: The difficult part and the number one thing I want you to do is I want you to identify what I call the crabs in the bucket theory.
Speaker: You've heard this before, but the theory is very simple.
Speaker: If you have a bucket, you're out fishing, you're crab fishing, and you have five, 10, 15 crabs in there, they're in the bucket, you don't need to put a lid on this bucket.
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: Because when one crab
Speaker: or two or three crabs try to go climb up out of the bucket, get freedom, all of the other crabs in the bucket simultaneously pull the crab back down in the bucket.
Speaker: They pull them down.
Speaker: And it happens every single time.
Speaker: Go YouTube it.
Speaker: It's absolutely crazy how this works.
Speaker: Your life is the same way.
Speaker: The people you're around, a lot of them don't want you to be successful.
Speaker: And the harsh reality of this is, okay, the people who don't want you to be successful are often the closest to you.
Speaker: Your family members, your mom, your dad, your brother, these are the people to where you get on the brink of success, they will subconsciously try to sabotage your success.
Speaker: I'd be saying my mom's not like that.
Speaker: I didn't think that either with my parents, right?
Speaker: And when I started making more money than my parents at 19 years old, things changed.
Speaker: Things changed.
Speaker: Conversations changed.
Speaker: They started giving advice, trying to interject their opinion, right?
Speaker: Trying to do what parents do.
Speaker: And you got to realize it comes out of love.
Speaker: These people want and care about you.
Speaker: That's why they're doing these things.
Speaker: That's why they're saying you shouldn't sell solar.
Speaker: They think it's dangerous.
Speaker: They're trying to protect you, but realize that protection is often going to be the biggest threat to your success.
Speaker: So you've got to make hard, difficult decisions.
Speaker: One decision I had to make is I don't talk about my financial goals.
Speaker: I don't talk about my career to my parents.
Speaker: I edit that relationship.
Speaker: I just talk about superficial things.
Speaker: Hey, how's the weather?
Speaker: How's the family?
Speaker: We talk about little fun things like that.
Speaker: But I don't talk about dreams and goals because when I do, they start interjecting their advice, their doubts, their opinions.
Speaker: They start shooting down those dreams because they want to protect me because they think it's high risk.
Speaker: And to them, it is high risk because they're not trained and they're not around people that are going to help elevate them to the level they need to be at.
Speaker: So realize, as harsh as it sounds, right, cutting, editing relationships with family, you have to do it.
Speaker: You have to rip off the band-aid and do this.
Speaker: So right now, make a list of all the crabs, the environment, the things that you're reading that are going to be toxic and be negative to your environment.
Speaker: Eliminate them, and let's get to the next video.
Speaker: Wow, what another value-packed episode of The Solarpreneur.
Speaker: Guys, if you couldn't tell, we spend a lot of time and energy to put these episodes out to hopefully give you just one strategy, one golden nugget that's going to launch your solar career to the next level.
Speaker: And we do it all for free.
Speaker: And if you found any value in this episode or it's helped you in any way, all I ask in return is that you just take 30 seconds of your time and leave us a review on iTunes so that we can help more solopreneurs like you to change the world.
Speaker: And as a gift for leaving us a review, we have a special training package exclusive for solopreneur listeners over at solopreneurs.com.
Speaker: Remember, you need to leave us a review on iTunes to qualify for the training package.
Speaker: So take care of that now and we'll see you on the next episode.
