Make Sh*t Happen

On episode I sit down with Howard Partridge who is an international business coach with coaching members in over 100 industries in 18 countries. He is a best selling author of eight books, a TEDx Speaker, the exclusive business coach for the Zig Ziglar Corporation, the first Ziglar Legacy Trainer in the world, the first founding member of The John Maxwell Team and a Master Trainer DISC Certified Human Behavior Expert. He is also now a Certified StoryBrand Guide.

Howard grew up on welfare in Mobile Alabama and left home at 18. He arrived in Houston, Texas on a Greyhound bus with only 25 cents in his pocket. He started his first business out of the trunk of his car over 35 years ago and built it into a multi-million dollar enterprise. He has owned 9 small businesses altogether and owns 4 companies at the time of this printing.

He is president of Phenomenal Products, Inc. which helps small business owners stop being a slave to their business by transforming it into a predictable, profitable, turnkey operation. For the past two decades Howard has helped small business owners around the world dramatically improve their businesses.

He has led hundreds of seminars, webinars, workshops and holds his own live multi-day events which have featured some of America’s top business trainers including John Maxwell, Michael Gerber, Bob Burg, Dr. Joseph A. Michelli, Darren Hardy, Dr. Robert Rohm and American legend Zig Ziglar.

Howard is married to Denise, has one son, Christian, and is a proud grandfather to Gianna Partridge.

This is Three Minute Thursday, episode number 151. And I was listening to this audio today, and it's like a similar thing that I have talked about earlier about gazelle and Lion. You know, the gazelle gotta run to make sure they survive. The Lion gotta run after the gazelle to make sure they eat. But, you know, I started thinking, the gazelle doesn't have to be as fast as the Lion, man. Gazelle really don't have to outrun the lion. The gazelle just gotta make sure they outrun the slowest gazelle to not be eaten. The goal should be always. Hey, you gotta be in the front, right? You got to be. If you're not in the front, then you're almost in the front. But if there is 10 sales running, just got to make sure you're not the 10th one in the back. As long as you're not the last one in the back, you're not going to get eaten. You know what I mean by that is just you always got to make sure you are ahead of the pack and you're not left behind. Because if you're live behind, the lion is going to eat you up, man, so you can't be slow to react you got to be right there. You got to wake up in the morning and you just got to go at it, because if you're not going at it, someone is out doing you. Someone is outworking you. Someone is out hustling you. You know, the problem right now, man. It's just so easy to be great right now. We live in this, you know, we're in this generation. We in this time where a lot of the people are just soft, man, and sensitive. And so it's easy to be great because the competition is not there. Look how many people are not going to work. Look how many people are just sitting at home doing nothing because they want to make sure that they can get some free money. There is nothing called free money. So I commend everybody who wakes up in the morning and go to work. Because when you wake up in the morning and go to work, you're showing that hustle already. All you need is directions. Okay? All you need is a little direction all you need a little push all you need is a little motivation. Sometimes self-motivating is hard, man. And that's why you should listen to people. You shouldn't listen to YouTube, listen to the great ones. Listen to you're already listening to my podcast. I'm telling you, you need to motivate yourself. You need to push yourself because if you say you can, I can. I will. And that's something like Eric Thomas says, I can. I will, and I must. I can do it. And I must do it in order for us to succeed in order for us to stay in front of the slowest gazelle, in order for us not to be eaten. Hey thank you for tuning in and if you feel this helps or can help someone please send them this as it helps the channel grow. Now let's go out there and MAKE SH*T HAPPEN.