Welcome to this episode of the Growthcast. My name is Jackson Campbell. Joined again here with Dallas Pruit for another extended cut episode. Very grateful to be here. Before we dive in and I introduce the topic, I just wanna introduce myself for those new listeners. My name's Jackson Campbell. I've been working with Dallas    Pruitt since the beginning of the growth cast.

I'm very grateful to be here.  But to give you a rundown of the growth cast Monday through Thursday we get to hear from. On the growth. Now we're a little bit different. This podcast is a little bit different than the regular podcast. You're, you listen to most podcasts, drop one episode a week, maybe two episodes a week, maybe three.

But over here at the Growth Cast, we drop six episodes a week, Monday through Thursday. So those first four episodes are hosted and narrated by Dallas Pruitt, where he goes through mindset principles, gets us ready for our day. Very short and impactful episodes. Definitely tune in for those.

Then on Friday I get to sit down. I get the honor to sit down with Tyler DeVere, interview him about his business, what he's doing. Talk about mindset. We talk about real estate. We share things that we learn on these podcasts. So it's very powerful to hear from Ty, hear what he's learning and those perspectives he's gaining.

And then on Saturday, the episode you're listening to right now is an extended cut episode where I get to sit down with Dallas Pruit. We dissect the book of the month, but we're always gonna be talking about mindset principles. Sometimes we might loop in the the principle from that past week's drip.

We might just talk about the book of the. But that is more or less the outline of the growth cast. We're very lucky and very blessed to be able to have the listeners that we do. We just got back from peak partnership and man, it was thank you. It was overwhelming. I got I, it was overwhelming for me to get so many, absolutely, so many thank yous from people.

It was it's humbling man, and I just, to everybody that came up and talked to me and said, what's up? And that I was able to chat with a little bit. I love. I truly love you, and I pray for your success. I hope for your success. And I, we, I really hope that the growth cast hopes you get there, that you can use this, that you can look back to these episodes and find some golden nuggets to help you get to your goals.

Yeah, I love the growth cast. I wanna give a quick breakdown of what we do weekly, but Dallas, let's dive in here, man. Let's dive in here to the episode of this week. The topic that we want to talk about this week is decisiveness and ownership. Yeah. We've been reading the book extreme Owners Ship by Jocko Wilin and La Babin.

That's been the book of the month this month. So if you haven't grabbed that, definitely still suggest getting that in and get, getting that, adding that book to your list at the least. But Dallas, yeah. I know there was an excerpt from the book that you wanted to read. Yeah. You wanna start there? Is there anything you wanna add before you go in?

Yeah, we'll get there right now. I was gonna reiterate. Mindset. The mindset we teach to, the principles we talk of, the tactics, we share, the insight, these timeless drips of wisdom, if you will, Monday through Thursday. They really all are rooted in leadership. We talk about mindset and.

It's funny because, there are different mindsets. And the one we talk heavily on is a mindset of leading out properly, right? In accordance with timeless tactics, principles and strategies that just produce a good life that produce fulfillment, that produce success, that produce happiness.

And it's funny, not funny. It's cool that we're talking about extreme ownership because. Extreme ownership is a big part of that mindset, right? Like leadership in general. And and I love today's, you just talked about this little segment we're gonna read, it summarizes the mindset.

In terms of like process driven, that's one thing I think that people need to understand about the work that, that we do, that you and I do, that that, even M F M us as a whole, we are all very heavily entrenched or rooted in this mindset of process driven. We're very process driven. Process and development.

Diving further and further into the process, loving the pro, learning to love the process every day. And  Part of that is understanding that you know this picture you're painting no matter how much you try to complete it right, and control everything and dot all your i's and cross your t's and do everything in sequential order and do it perfect and do it right it's an incomplete picture.

You can't muster up all the contingencies that will come about. You can't predict everything you can. You can plan and prepare, but you cannot even fathom some of the things that will pop up as you continue to grow and build as a leader in your life, whether that's your family and or your work. Or a project within that work or whatever else.

So I wanted to read this. It said, this incomplete picture principle is not unique to combat. It applies to virtually every aspect of our individual lives, such as personal healthcare decisions or whether or not to evacuate from the predicated path of a major storm. It particularly applies to leadership and decision making in business.

While business leaders may not generally face life or death situations, they are certainly under intense pressure. With capital at risk markets flux and competitors actively working to out-maneuver, opponents professional careers and paychecks are at stake. Outcomes are never certain. Success never guaranteed.

Even so business leaders must be comfortable in the chaos and act decisively admits amid such uncertainty. And I think that's the one guarantee man. Uncertainty, literally, like across the board. You and I were talking about some important things before we, it always comes back to a prior conversation when you start recording our pre-recording the podcast.

I know we really should. And like I've been chasing down quote unquote, chasing. Success. I guess that's one perspective is I've been chasing down success within the growth of my business for 10 years, but I don't view it that way, right? Like I don't view it that way anymore. I believe when I first started that was speaking of mindset, when I first started, that was part of my mindset was, man, I gotta go chase this down.

But one thing that I've come to realize is success is something that ensues every single day as you make proper decisions. Decis. Moves maneuvers around things that produce like planning, like looking at contingencies like preparation for chaos and uncertainty, right?  And that is success. Like doing that every single day.

That is success. Adopting the mentality that next week you really don't know what's gonna come. You can plan for everything that you do know, but there are some things that are gonna happen next week, maybe even tomorrow, that you do not know. It will come out of left field. Are you prepared? Are you preparing yourself mentally for.

And so I just think again, yeah. The one certain thing that we can, the one guarantee that we all have as we move forward with all these amazing things that we're striving to do and become in our lives is life's gonna throw us curve balls every week. Yeah. And some of those curve balls, dude.

They are bendy and scary. Yeah. Yeah. And you can do work now to prepare for that. You can become better now. You can become successful every single day and better prepare for whatever those curve balls are gonna be. It's so good. It's so good. It reminds me of a quote or a statistic. There was a study done or a survey done to a hundred millionaires, and it was like, what is one trait, like trying to figure out a trait that all these millionaires.

and the trait was being of, was decisiveness. You don't get, you don't get to where you want to go without being able to make calculated, and decisive decisions. Yeah. It's so good. Dude. It's so good that you bring this up because oftentimes we all go through things in our life where we have to make decisions, like we have to make decisions every single day.

Some decisions easier than, , but understanding that's a success principle, like you're saying, to make calculated and dec and decisive decisions and not just wait around is huge. Yeah. Del, I wanna ask you do you have any examples of that in your life where, yeah, maybe you didn't make a decisive decision and it came back to bite you in the ass, or you did make a decisive decision and it worked out in your favor?

Yeah. Let's maybe talk about. Yeah. One where it was in limbo and then I was decisive. But it was scary. Yeah. Fast or rewind the clock back to there's a couple dude. Extremely impactful and ironically they're the most impactful, some of the most impactful decisions I've ever made.

Yeah. And it came from just following your gut, following an intuition following. This feeling. And I don't want to like bypass that because I believe that sometimes, we talk about weeding our emotions outta the way, but like our heart and our minds have to be connected when we make big decisions.

They just do. And you gotta use your brain and you gotta use your heart. But no dude, I think real quick, just on that note, yeah, dude, I think that's where a lot of people get m mixed up, right? It's like you don't weed out all your emotion. No, you just make sure your emotions go through the filtering process, which is your brain.

Absolutely. Your brain is what makes the decisions right? But to filter those feelings through your brain so you can feel them. That's powerful. Learn about yourself with those feelings, right? And then make a decision. That's what it's about. Don't make decisions from here. Make decisions from here.

Yeah. Absolutely. So I'm gonna talk about two things. I'll talk about the example, and then I'll talk about something that helps in becoming more decisive around these big decisions around decisions in general and Rewind the clock. Three years ago I'd been doing my business, working my business, double dipping, if you will, on a professional career in a specific industry while like tapping into the business world and running in both those lanes at the same time.

And these two lanes had come, or these two things had come head to head and , there was decisions to be made, but it was scary. It was really scary to be decisive because by committing to something, you're saying no to something else. And that's always the case, right? Like when you say yes to something, you're, that means you're saying no to something else and you can't have it all, you can't have. High risk, high reward and safety. Like you just don't get to have all of that. And so I, I got offered this big opportunity. Funny enough, it's this opportunity that we're living in right now. And and I'm maybe have shared the story, but I had planned and planned and planned and planned.

And prepared prepared, prepared, prepared for that moment. And the moment came, the moment was ny of making a decision and being decisive. And what happens when that moment is ny dude, fear settles in. You start to think and not just think, but you start to overthink. If you're not careful, you'll become very indecisive because of fear.

Yeah, fear settled in and I had committed softly, not hard to a decision, which was I was gonna exit my career. Yeah. Fully dive, full force, full mission onboard, go ongoing. Lots of uncertainties. Dude, I sat on that fence for about 24 hours and luckily for me, Somebody who had been down that path prior in a different aspect of their life, I'm sure was recognizing in me something that they had experienced in their lives.

That man's name was Ryan Wooley and he called me up and he says, Hey, Dallas, what's the deal? And I was like, oh dude, no, we're good. Like I'm trying to get around it, be strategic. And he's no, yesterday you were this, and today like, I can tell you're nervous. And I was like, I'll be honest dude.

I'm just trying to, and I kinda started to go down the path of explaining and he was, and I just remember him just like pouring love into me, being like, dude, like you got this. And reiterating the impor the importance of decisiveness and helped me recognize there what I did that day that I haven't shared as part of this story I, and that I've done continu.

and even had done prior, but maybe wasn't fully aware that I did this, and, but I do it on purpose now, is I think about my mortality. I think about like the lack of guarantee of tomorrow. My wife and I were actually talking about that today. There is no guarantee. We think there's like this guarantee that tomorrow's gonna come and you'll have more time to sit on the fence and you'll have more time to sit there and think and overthink and you'll talk yourself out of it a million times over for a billion different reasons.

But again, coming back to my heart, the mind connecting the two and looking forward to the uncertainty of not just tomorrow, but. The rest of this life and then asking the better question of what if I don't do this. What if I say no? And then sitting in that literally just sitting in that emotion for a minute, like before it's ever happened it hasn't even happened.

We have, that has helped me to become way more decisive regarding some of the most important decisions that I have ever made and committed to in my entire.  and it's this constant battle of prep, preparation, planning, thinking ahead, contingencies, sitting in your mor, the fact of your mortality, and that you're gonna die one day.

And what's your passions, what are you, what do you care about? Why does it matter? And then it's a matter of what what now, what's next? And understanding that if you say yes to everything, that really means that you get. You don't get everything. If you say yes to everything, you almost get nothing.

Yeah, of high value. You don't have these experiences. You don't accomplish a great thing. You don't cultivate a great work. You just do a lot. That amounts to some things, and that's just not a path that a leader looking to make an impact in the world.  and I had to sit in that reality. And at that moment I was just faced with, and that was just one of many dude that's just one of many moments that I've had.

But I've become, the more that I've practiced that type of thought process and that type of progression in a situation like that, the better I have become at becoming more and more decisive.  Regarding super important decisions in my life. And hopefully that's helpful. Dude. Dude, such a good example.

Such a good example. Thank you for sharing that, man. My biggest takeaway there is make you get to make a decision. You gotta make a decision and move, right? It's like you have to be confident in the decisions you're making, but you have to be confident in yourself as well. Yeah, you do. And you've gotta be confident in your.

Yeah, like I think that part of the decision making process is understanding that no is a really, I important word in our vocabulary. It's a really valuable word in our vocabulary. Saying no to things is liberating. Saying no to things helps you move, further down that funnel of getting to whatever that thing is that you are supposed to do that, that you care a ton about.

And the truth is this, man you can't sit and care and do all these things. You won't do 'em all well.  And man, you got one life to live. , how are you gonna lead that out? What does that look like for you? Yeah. And I think, if you want to know, get better and be more courageous with saying no, be more courageous with saying no if it doesn't excite you.

If it doesn't, fill you up. If it doesn't, if you're not sure like it, it's okay to say no. You don't have to say yes. Say yes to those things that excite you and keep following that path. Say yes to those things that light you up and pay attention. Keep paying attention, cultivate a skillset, keep paying attention.

And yeah, I just think that those, that's a really powerful way of navigating, the build of a business and the build of your life. Yeah, absolutely. And it's a powerful way to take ownership as well. Like a lot of times you say, Meaning that you're not gonna do something, but by saying no, you're taking ownership of whatever it is that is the priority for you.

Absolutely. So it's an important thing to remember there too. I've been like picking up this book and reading it. It's a book by Rick Rubin about creativity. Rick Rubin, he is a famous producer. For those of you that are in the music, that know, that, know the music industry, produced albums with Jay-Z.

Like he big time Beyonce. Justin Bieber, like he's big time producer. He talks, he wrote this book about creativity and one thing that really stood out inside of that was talking about ideas, talking about creativity, was, and I've been trying to figure out how I can loop it in here with create with decisiveness, because what he talked about was other artists, don't steal your idea.

You just took too long to execute on that idea. So that idea moved to another area to have itself known. Does that make sense? To like to, because there's times for ideas to come forward is what he was saying. There's time for ideas and creativity to come forward and that idea might land on you for you to be that tool to bring it forward.

But if you don't, Take that decisive action to, to make those actions own it and own it. Chances are it's gonna, that idea is gonna go elsewhere because it's the universe is actually calling for, it's something that's actually needed. So he talked about oftentimes we don't take decisions, we don't make decisions, and then they, what our idea was, finds its way to somebody else and is created that way.

So it comes back to being dec. It really comes back to being decisive. When you have that gut feeling, like you were talking about, looping it back to that, follow that, because that feeling, if you push that off long enough, it will go away, right? If you don't follow those things and make those decisive actions that you feel d deep down that you need to make in order to get you to your goal, they will go away from you.

You will not feel that at some point, and then you're. Up creek without a paddle. Then you have to figure out something else and you have to pivot. Yeah. Just to drive home that point to what you're saying. You have to be decisive. You have to be decisive or else, chances are your idea or thought's gonna portrays itself in some other way.

Absolutely. And you'll yoga cop put your pants down. Yeah. You'll continue to be caught with your pants down and you'll wonder. . And really a lot of the times it just boils down to you didn't take action. Yeah. You didn't make a decision, you didn't move forward. So many people stay stuck in thinking, they stay stuck in overanalyzing and instead we could be working.

we could be working and getting better. We could be in the process, in the thick of it, making decision after decision, and learning from each one and helping it, or allowing that to help us make be even better decisions as we continue to move forward. That's the directional path we need to be moving.

But so many people think that by not making a decision, they'll stay here and they ga gain more time in preparation to move in the direction they want to go. But in reality, what they're doing is they're actually. Moving backwards. They're moving in a backwards direction. I'm a firm believer that, there's two directions in life.

It's either forward, we're growing we're learning, we're growing, or we're faltering backwards and there's really not this idea or concept or belief in my brain. We come back to mindset that there's this stall where we can just stall life. There's no stall because guess. Life keeps moving.

Life still keeps punching you in the face, and it still keeps moving. Ideas keep coming to fruition. People keep producing industries, continue to morph and cultivate and grow. And people do too. , are you gonna be one of those people or are you gonna be one of those other people? . And that's a decision.

That's a decision. That's a commitment you have to make. And yeah, I just, I'm a fan of this principle and I honestly would invite everybody to, as we close out, like I, I would invite everybody to maybe look back on your.  and really sit in an example for a minute because everybody's had an example in their life where they were decisive.

Yeah. Where they were decisive. And then they followed that decision with a series of other decisions in line with whatever that decision was, and it produced something great in their life. And great is relative. Great can be whatever. It was great for you. And my invite is to sit in that, write that down, and then come to the understanding or the, recognition again that like that principle holds.  for every decision you make, everything you commit to, anything you want to do it, it follows that same progress. A progressional system it, it all just boils down to did you commit, did you decide and then get to work?

And that involves new decisions in regards to that same exact thing you're working to bring to life literally every single day. And and underestimate the power of being decis. Now I'll do one thing that I want to add here as we wrap up, is decisiveness makes it easier to take ownership. And if we could remember that, if we could remember that it's easier to take ownership if we are decisive, right?

One of the things we talk about in ownership and leadership is taking ownership of everything, right? Even the decisions of your team members, right? Even the decisions of your team members and the consequences that follow those things as well, right? , but if you're a leader, if you're, if you are a leader in your own life, but if you are decisive, it makes it that much easier to take ownership and be able to find those, maybe those faulty areas when maybe that decision wasn't the good decision or why or the correct decision.

By making those decisions, you have complete ownership to then reverse it all the way back to when you make that decision to see what you could have maybe done better or improved on. So that's really what I wanted to end on today, dude, looping back down to decisiveness is that it makes ownership so much more easy when you can, when you are making the decisions that you're taking ownership for.

Makes it amazing. Makes it easier for sure. Absolutely. Because it gives you more control over the. We're not leaving it to chance. Exactly. That's not a good, that's not a safe bet. No. So Dallas, thank you so much, man. Thank you so much. Such a powerful episode. Reme. Just again, just a reminder for everybody, maybe a challenge for everybody.

Figure out where you're not making that decisive decision in your life and make a decision. Start, dude, like whatever, I'll end this dude. Tyler's always talking about no decision is finite. You bring it up all the time, make a decision, and. Within that movement and in that momentum, new things come to pass.

And maybe new ideas or opportunities come to pass as well. But you have to make that decision and start moving. Moving towards your goals. Absolutely. You're the writer of your own life, dude. You're the one writing the freaking story and. The only way to continue the pin moving forward and bring that story to life is by making sound decisions on a regular basis and becoming more and more decisive regarding the things that you truly want in this life.

YOLO tomorrow is not guaranteed, so no, let's wake up and let's re wake up every day and live in that reality. Don't let it scare you. Let it excite. Absolutely everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. Dallas. I can't believe you just ended that episode with a YOLO hashtag yolo. That's an old school one, not maybe.

I don't know. I'm not with the times, but like I don't remember somebody I got. There we go. You only live once for you old hoop begins that aren't understanding that. But Dallas, thank you so much man, for your wisdom, your time everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. The one thing we ask is that you leave us a.

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