Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Escaping the Drift - The Weekly Drop: Harnessing the Power of Adversity
22 Nov 2024
Failure is a formidable yet transformative teacher, as I discovered on my journey through life's inevitable trials and triumphs. In this episode of Escaping the Drift, I open up about my personal experiences with failure, sharing how gut-wrenching setbacks taught me invaluable lessons. Drawing inspiration from Ryan Holiday's "The Obstacle is the Way" and Ari Rastegar's "The Gift of Failure," and enriched by my conversation with Mikey C Rock, we explore the concept of treating failures as either burdens in the "trunk" or fuel in the "tank." This mindset shift helps transform setbacks into opportunities for growth, emphasizing the necessity of letting failure sting briefly before dissecting and learning from it—much like a school project. As we conclude our discussion, my appreciation for our supportive listeners grows even more profound. Engaging with you through our website at escapingthedrift.com and encouraging you to join our mailing list is just the beginning. Your reviews and shares help us reach others who might benefit from these insights, and together, we can foster a community that embraces learning from failure. Be sure to tune in next week for another enlightening conversation, and thank you for being a crucial part of our journey. Let's continue moving forward, learning, and growing together. 💬 Did you enjoy this weekly drop? Tell us all about it in the comment section below! ☑️ If you liked this video, consider subscribing to Escaping The Drift with John Gafford ************* 💯 About John Gafford: After appearing on NBC's "The Apprentice", John relocated to the Las Vegas Valley and founded several successful companies in the real estate space. ➡️ The Gafford Group at Simply Vegas, top 1% of all REALTORS nationwide in terms of production. Simply Vegas, a 500 agent brokerage with billions in annual sales Clear Title, a 7-figure full-service title and escrow company. ➡️ Streamline Home Loans - An independent mortgage bank with more than 100 loan officers. The Simply Group, A national expansion vehicle partnering with large brokers across the country to vertically integrate their real estate brokerages. ************* ✅ Follow John Gafford on social media: Instagram ▶️ / thejohngafford Facebook ▶️ / gafford2 🎧 Stream the new Weekly Drop here: Listen On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cWN80gtZ4m4wl3DqQoJmK?si=2d60fd72329d44a9 Listen On Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/escaping-the-drift-with-john-gafford/id1582927283 ************* #weeklydrop #johngafford #failure #transformative #teacher #trials #triumphs #escapingthedrift #personalexperiences #setbacks #lessons #inspiration #ryanholiday #theobstacleistheway #arirastegar #thegiftoffailure #mindsetshift #opportunities #growth #schoolproject #supportivelisteners #engaging #website #mailinglist #reviews #shares #community #learning #resilience #powerofintrospection #showpromotion #appreciation #enriching #value #insightfulconversations #growingcommunity
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from the podcast that gets you from where you are to where you want to be escaping the drift this is the weekly drop with john gafford no matter what platform you're watching or listening to us on make sure you like subscribe and comment and now the drop ah welcome back everybody i'm john gafford and welcome to your weekly drop and i gotta tell you man i have failed i mean absolutely crash and burn miserably failed
And as the saying goes, if you don't fail, you probably aren't accomplishing very much either. And in life, the ball will get rolling, right? Sometimes you can just do no wrong. Confidence is strong. One success leads to the next. But if you're somebody like me that has a lot of balls in the air in business, in relationships, in ideas and concepts and things you wanna do,
you're gonna miss way more than you connect with. And I win a lot, but man, I fail a lot. And sometimes those failures come really close together and start to compile on them a little bit. And so when that happens for me, A couple of things that I know. Number one, I've probably drifted too far away from my process of how I deal with failure.
So today in this podcast, I want to explain to you exactly what my process is for dealing with these things. But I also go back and revisit some books that I love. Obviously, Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way. My good friend Ari Rastegar, his book, The Gift of Failure. Pick it up on Amazon. Great book. But all of these little things to remind me of how to deal with these things.
And when failure comes, dude, for me, it can be gut wrenching because I have sometimes ideas that I fall in love with. And I'm the first one to say I fall madly in love with my own ideas. And when they don't come to fruition or they fail, it's almost like for me. an artist that paints a painting and then people think it sucks, right?
It's almost how it feels because I take it so personally because so much of what I attempt to do, it is very personal to me, as I'm sure it is to you. And if you don't properly deal with those losses as they come up, then it's going to be a real problem. And it's funny, coming out next week on Tuesday, listen to this. I had Mikey C-Rock, who's a good friend, who I had him on the podcast.
His episode comes out next Tuesday. And just talking about, he wrote a book called Rocket Fuel, How to Turn Failure into Success. And it was the best analogy I'd ever heard for something he adopted at a very early age. He said it's either... It's either the trunk or the tank when something happens. You either put it in the trunk or the tank.
And what he meant by that was if you put something in the trunk, if you think about that metaphor, it's like heavy, the back of the car, the vehicle sags down because it's towing all of this stuff. It's carrying all of this stuff. But the tank, man, that's what makes the thing go. So he says whenever adversity jumps up and bites him or he fails, he looks down and goes, am I going to use this?
Where's this going? It's two choices. There's no more than two choices. That's it. It's going to the trunk. It's going to the tank. And I wanted to kind of show you and tell you how I turn things from instead of putting them in the trunk and I put them in the tank. The first thing is this. I'm going to tell a story.
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