Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Escaping the Drift - The Weekly Drop: The Impact of Honesty and Consistency
31 Jan 2025
Fulfilling commitments is no small feat, especially when illness strikes and life's unpredictabilities rear their heads. This week, I open up about my personal journey of prioritizing my word and the resilience it took to continue this podcast, despite the hurdles. Through the lens of my days running an insurance company in Florida, I reveal how my phone became a mental management tool that helped me stay accountable. Discover how turning my calendar into a 'religion' became my strategy for maintaining discipline and keeping promises, even when the going got tough. Inspired by Don Miguel Ruiz's "The Four Agreements," we dive into the transformative impact of being impeccable with your word, highlighted by the unwavering integrity of John D. Rockefeller. Explore the essential role of trust and integrity, which are the true foundation of meaningful relationships and leadership. I share a candid experience of stepping away from a business opportunity due to my inability to meet expected standards, showcasing how honesty preserved that relationship. Learn why small lies can snowball into significant problems, eroding self-respect and confidence. Embracing reliability and consistency in commitments is not just a personal virtue but a powerful tool for building influence and opening new doors. Join me as we reflect on how these values can foster strong connections and turn life's challenges into opportunities. 💬 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 #Commitments #Illness #Resilience #Podcast #InsuranceCompany #Florida #MentalManagement #Accountability #Calendar #Religion #Discipline #Promises #DonMiguelRuiz #TheFourAgreements #JohnDRockefeller #Trust #Integrity #Relationships #Leadership #Honesty #SelfRespect #Confidence #Reliability #Consistency #Opportunities
Full Episode
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 welcome back to the program everybody happy thursday and welcome to the weekly drop from the podcast that gets you like i said man from uh where you are to where you want to be and you know where i want to be right now today anywhere but here
i gotta tell you i'm coming off the end of yet again a wicked wicked cold i just i'm just sick sick sick sick it's crazy how ill i have been this entire winter it just i'll get over one thing and then and then some other credit it's not even like i got like little kids anymore like when the kids were small they would constantly bring stuff home from uh from everywhere and it's not like that anymore it's just it's just me literally being sick and
I thought to myself, if I'm going to go down there today and I'm going to do this podcast, and literally this is the only reason I came down here today, was to do this podcast. And normally I'm ahead. I'm ahead on the interviews, but I'm never ahead on the weekly drops because I like to keep them poignant with whatever's going on at the time.
And with this one today, I thought, what a better thing to talk about than the importance of your word being your bond. and the importance of how and why you should always honor your commitments to others, to yourself, and everybody else.
Because today, literally, I am honoring my commitment, not just to me, but the commitment that I've made to all of you guys that choose to spend this 15 minutes with me every Thursday, that you expect these things to come out. And I want to make sure that I do them for you, and they're here.
You know, when I think about keeping my word, a couple of stories from my life come to mind and things that I've done to make it important. And the first one is gonna be a story of when I owned my own insurance company with my sister in Florida. This was a business that we spun up in the year 2000. It was really successful. It did really well.
We were selling Medicare supplements to old people in Florida, which as you can imagine is good business. And we had kind of come across this really good system for getting free medicine for old people. It was kind of a handshake agreement with the US government, with these drug companies, that if they met certain income requirements, that they would give them their medicine for free.
And we went out and essentially would say, okay, You're paying $175 for your Medicare supplement, but your drugs cost you $600. If you buy our Medicare supplement, which because you're a little older is going to be more expensive, now it's $200, we'll get all of your medicine for free. And that's what we did. And literally it was handing out free drugs is what we did.
That was the whole business model, and it worked exceptionally well. Well, as we grew, we started scaling to other markets. You know, we added some people and started adding people to the company. And we grew into Tampa, Florida, from North Florida. And my salesman down there, now, obviously, to make this work, we've got to buy leads off of mailers and just all this stuff.
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