The #1 Secret For Finding Balance & Success | Jesse Itzler & Sara Blakely EP 240

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0:55Sarah, you've had one idea that you've stuck with for 15 or 18 years with Spanx, and you create new ideas within the one idea. I do, which is just a different model. I do. I shared with Jesse and he knows this. I have other ideas. So I have 99 pages, single space typed of ideas. It's so much more important to me in sort of, instead of actioning on them instantly, it's more important to me to not lose them. I think an idea is a gift from the universe and, and I cannot take for granted that I might forget it. So the second I have it, I email it to myself. I used to keep it in notebooks, but now I do email and they're there.

1:35And then I revisit them. They will come out. Like my belly art book had nothing to do with Spanx. And that was an idea that was on that 99 pages. And I, some of them will knock on the door enough that I'll say, I'm going to find the extra time to make them happen. How many ideas do you think that is on 99 pages that a thousand is 10 ,000 is that 500, what is that range, you think? I don't know. I don't know, but it's interesting because we're both entrepreneurs with completely different styles. Sarah's very good at staying on one thing, saying no to stuff, monotasking, being single focused. And I like to operate in a completely different style.

2:13I need a lot of balls in the air at once. I need to bounce around from one thing to another. It's just the way I operate. I operate better with more balls in the air. So everybody has their own style. and over time you figure out what it is that works the best. Sarah's really disciplined. She's very disciplined and she works at, she looks at things through a unique lens. It's always customer first. It's always focused on value. It's always focused on, she goes right to the story and how she can articulate this to the customer and I'm ready firing. I'm like, I got to start before anybody else starts and I'm going to figure it out as I go.

2:51Just different styles. Are you friends with Buffett, Sarah? Yes. It's funny when just we were talking, his quote came to my mind, but there is a Warren Buffett quote that says, you know, the most successful people in life have one thing in common, their ability to say no. And you say no a lot. To many things. I have to, I have to, but it doesn't mean that, you know, another style of creating things in the world is any less. It's just, it's interesting. I am very disciplined in what I focus on. I'd probably say I'm in between both of you. Really? For me, I want to create stuff all the time and launch something quickly and put it out there.

3:31But then I'm also like, well, you can't truly build something, an empire, something magical for the long term if you're just jumping from one thing to the next. Whereas you have been disciplined for decades on building this global brand that just is so inspiring. And both are fun. It's like, but you get to create your, it's creative expression over here, the Jesse style. but you is you get to create something magical. The two ways to look at it is I also look at Jesse's life as so magical because literally I'm like, honey, you became top of the field in rap. Then he went from that to a jet company and did really well, which is so different than rap music.

4:11And then he goes from jets to coconut water and is really successful there. and now he's doing, he's an author and he's a motivational speaker. So to me, like that's really fascinating that he's been able, it's very unique to find someone who's, it's not that hard to find people who've jumped from sector to sector to sector. It's hard to find people who've mastered or kind of been top of the game in all those different ones. So I always look at him and think, oh my gosh, that's really makes for a colorful life. When I was starting out in business, my philosophy was say yes to everything because you know and I'm so interesting well it is because it was laughing at jokes that aren't funny going to everything no listen it was I had nothing I had to build a network I had to get out there I had to be someone that want want I want an invitation everything I'm serious because I didn't have the resources so for me I had to say yes to everything if there was an event I'm going because there could be a buyer there could be someone that that a connection if there was a basketball game i'm going i don't know who's going to be in the audience so it was yes yes yes yes yes when you get married and you have kids and you evolve your system has to evolve with it so what worked for me when i was 20 years old you know i had dinner when i was at 11 o 'clock at night in new york city now we have dinner at 5 30 at night as you evolve your system has to evolve.

5:38So I have said, I'm starting to say no to things. And, you know, I have a very simple test for friends and for business. I want low aggravation for the highest reward, like everybody. When I'm young, I'm willing to go high aggravation for high, high reward. But now that reward isn't worth it. So I want low aggravation. So you talk about this, Louis, but there's pillars in life, right? So success is, there's different kinds of success. And so there's monetary success. That's one bucket of your life. You know, there's success in your friendships and your relationships. There's success in how you are and behave in the community and what you're contributing.

6:20There's success in, are you healthy and strong? And do you take time to, you know, eat the right things and work out? And so I've kind of always had all of those pillars in my mind also. And I think it's easy for people to get so singularly focused in one pillar, and that makes their whole life off kilter. A really good point because, you know, people, success to me, and everyone has a different definition of success. But when I look at success, it's being good in multiple buckets. Like Sarah just said, that's where we put our energy. We try to be good parents and we got plenty of flaws, man. Try to be good husbands and wives, good kids.

7:00Both of our parents are both alive. So investing in time with them. And it's exhausting, man, because there's so many buckets as you get older.

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